Gould: Living Archaeology | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780521299596 | Living Archaeology | Gould (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2009

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'Living archaeology,' says Richard Gould, 'is ethnoarchaeology in the active voice'. Using as case studies his own observations of Australian Aborigines, and those of others, the author presents a unified theory of ethnoarchaeology. He demonstrates a reliable way to infer adaptive behavior in prehistoric communities by studying adaptive behavior in a contemporary society and noting the evidence of this behavior in material discards. Gould examines and dismisses the argument by analogy, long accepted as fundamental in earlier archaeological studies of this kind, and, as an alternative, he proposes the argument by anomaly. The book starts by recording a day in the life of a traditional Australian Desert Aborigine camp. the author identifies many social, verbal, and ideational interactions that would be difficult, if not impossible, to infer directly from the typical 'archaeological' remains of this non-material behavior. The book examines differences between actual as opposed to anticipated human behavior and suggests that understanding the reasons for these contrasts is what characterizes ethnoarchaeology at its best.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: archaeology and the totality of human behavior; 1. Tikatika; 2. Beyond analogy; 3. Behavior and adaptation; 4. Other adaptive models in Aboriginal Australia; 5. The anthropology of human residues; 6. The materialist approach in living archaeology; 7. The importance of being different; 8. Explaining the differences; 9. Antipodean anomalies; 10. Surprise package; Notes;Bibliography; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521299596
ISBN-10:	0521299594
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gould Gould, R. A.
Redaktion:	Renfrew, Colin
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	Gould (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.02.2009
Gewicht:	0,471 kg