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J Social Archaeol 6 (1)
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Title:
J Social Archaeol 6 (1)
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Series:
Journal of Social Archaeology
Volume
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Volume:
6 (1)
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Journal
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Editor:
Lynn Meskell
Chris Gosden
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Publisher:
Sage Publications
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Year of Publication:
2006
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://jsa.sagepub.com/content/vol6/issue1/
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Created Date:
06 Mar 2006
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Factual claims in late nineteenth century European prehistory and the descent of a modern discipline's ideology
Michael Fotiadis
5 - 27
The author argues that although extravagant, fantastic claims about the past are not unique to the late-nineteenth century in European prehistory, those from that period sound especially curious to twenty-first century archaeological ears and invite reflection: their authors are the direct disciplinary ancestors of present-day archaeologists yet appear to be of a radically different breed of scholars/subjects. In this article, the author explores the nature of the difference, while attempting to `re-member' the presence in the discipline's past of those ancestors. At issue, he argues, is not the nineteenth-century ideological context that made their fantastic claims appear like solid knowledge to them, but the disciplinary ideology that sustains the practice of prehistoric archaeology today, and from the standpoint of which the nineteenth-century factual claims are curious. This ideology, he argues, descends from the same nineteenth-century scholarship that it now finds replete with fantasies.
Material habits, identity, semeiotic
Veerendra P Lele
48 - 70
Complementing recent archaeological work on identities, the author describes the semeiotic of Charles Sanders Peirce -- his general `theory of signs' -- and discusses its uses for interpreting human identity through material culture and the artefactual record. He argues that previous researches, often classified as `symbolic anthropology/archaeology', have presented a more restricted sense of semeiotic, while fewer scholars have been working through Peirce's theories directly. He articulates some aspects of Peirce's semeiotic realism and his pragmatism with his theories regarding semeiosic matter and semeiosic identity. Specifically, Peirce regarded matter as `mind hidebound with habits', and his semeiotic is particularly well-suited for analyzing the obdurate or habitual character of material culture. Based primarily on ethnographic and archaeological fieldwork in an Irish-speaking region in western Ireland, the author explores and applies some of Peirce's theories to an interpretation of human social identities manifest through such things as prayer beads and field-walls.
Communicating archaeology: words to the wise
Joe Watkins
100 - 118
The following article begins with a few examples of misunderstandings involved in communicating archaeology, including the use of jargon or inappropriate communication styles, and then goes beyond these topics to the core of the Western scientific process of naming and categorizing, to the politics of the profession and to the implications of professional archaeology on contemporary populations.
Art, crafts and paleolithic art
Oscar M Abadía
119 - 141
The article examines the foundations of modern understanding of Palaeolithic art. The author argues that the depiction of Palaeolithic art elaborated by Western archaeologists during the period 1860--1905 was largely based on the projection of categories used to characterize craft at the end of the nineteenth century onto prehistoric art, and that the weakening of evolutionism and the recognition of the complexity of primitive societies at the turn of the century provoked a new definition of Palaeolithic art.