Postprocessual Archaeology
- Title
- Postprocessual Archaeology
- Creator(s)
- Hodder, Ian
- Date
- 1985
- Is Part Of
- Postprocessual Archaeology
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 1-26
- Language
- eng
- Abstract
- This essay draws some outlines for theories of social change in which material culture is seen as actively and meaningfully produced, and in which the individual actor, culture, and history are central. It is not, therefore, intended to argue for an archaeology of the symbolic order. The importance of the work of, for example, Deetz (1977), Glassie (1975), Wobst (1977), Leori-Gourhan (1967), and Hall (1977) to the development of symbolic archaeology has been outlined by Leone (1982). The concern in this essay, however, is more with the social and historical context of symbolic production and with an attempt to identify the implications of the notion of the unity of meaning (belief) and action. The sources for this latter interest are primarily outside archaeology, in particular Giddens (1979) and Bourdieu (1977). Other varied ideas taken from, for example, Piaget (1972), Geertz (1973), Turner (1969), Sperber (1975), and Douglas (1966) underline the difficulty of writing a review in which an established approach or school is identified with its own archaeological tradition. Rather a number of emerging trends in archaeology and material culture studies are noted and their potential implications within archaeology assessed.
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