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Tracing archaeology's past : the historiography of archaeology

Author: Andrew L Christenson; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations.
Publisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1989.
Series: Publications in archaeology (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations)
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Tracing archaeology's past.
Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1989
(OCoLC)555807495
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew L Christenson; Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations.
ISBN: 0809315238 9780809315239
OCLC Number: 18817308
Notes: At head of title: Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.
All but one of the papers, which have been revised for this volume, were originally presented at a conference held May 1-2, 1987 at Southern Illinois University.
Includes index.
Description: xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: A question of relevance / David J. Meltzer --
"Social archaeology" in the nineteenth century : is is right to look for modern ideas in old places? / Christopher Chippindale --
Analyzing recent trends in American archaeology from a historical perspective / Jeremy A. Sabloff --
The history of archaeology and the archaeological history of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico / Jonathan E. Reyman --
The history of archaeology and the liberal arts curriculum / Susan J. Bender --
Contacting the theoretical archaeologists / Lester Embree --
Revising and revisioning the history of archaeology : reflections on region and context / C.M. Hinsley --
Contextualizing archaeology / Alice B. Kehoe --
The history of Mesoamerican archaeology at the crossroads : changing views of the past / Daniel Schávelzon. Prejudice and context : the anthropological archaeologist as historian / Donald McVicker --
The role of ideology and institutions in shaping classical archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Stephen L. Dyson --
Of facts and hearsay : bringing Augustus Le Plongeon into focus / Lawrence G. Desmond --
Toward an institutional history of archaeology : British archaeologists and allied interests in the 1860s / William Chapman --
The past is still alive : the immediacy problem and writing the history of archaeology / Andrew L. Christenson --
Methods of relating historical collections of artifacts and associated records to known sites and current research / Marvin D. Jeter --
Recording the past : capturing the history of archaeology on videotape / Michael Tarabulski --
A documentation strategy for archaeology / Edwin A. Lyon.
Series Title: Publications in archaeology (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Center for Archaeological Investigations)
Responsibility: edited by Andrew L. Christenson.
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