Art/Anth 332
Contemporary
issues in archaeological theory:
interpreting material culture and
architectural space
Reed
College × Spring 2005
syllabus
Classes: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00 to 10:20 am. in
Library 41.
Instr.: mr Harmansah
(Office: Library 321)
Office Hours: Fridays 9-12 am and by appointment (e-mail: omur.harmansah@reed.edu).
As a modern discipline archaeology
investigates the past through the study of material things. Documenting how
past human activities are registered in the material world is central to
archaeological research. This material record of human societies are studied
and interpreted on a variety of scales, from cultural landscapes to cities, and
from architectural spaces to small artifactual assemblages. This course
examines various theoretical approaches that have been used in archaeology for
interpreting landscapes, architectural space and material culture. On a further
level of analysis, we will explore how archaeologists attempted to place such
material remains in the context of social practices, cultural processes and
long-term history. Discussions will be extended to study how archaeology
maintains a dialogue between the interpretation of the past from material
remains, and our own definitions of cultural identity and understanding of the
modern world today. Following a brief review of the history of the discipline
as a social science, issues of representation, style, craft technologies,
social complexity, ideology, agency, circulation of knowledge and goods, and
production of space will be central themes for the readings and discussions.
Case studies of archaeological projects and their interpretative schemes will
be drawn especially from the ancient Near Eastern and the classical
Mediterranean world.
Books
ordered through Reed Bookstore:
There
may be occasional assignments of sections from these books but the students are
expected to start reading them right away as the semester starts and our class
discussion will often touch upon them. Hodder and Hutson, and Trigger should be
read in the first three-to-four weeks while the readings in Meskell and Pruecel
will be more extensively used after the first couple of weeks.
Ian
Hodder and Scott Hutson. Reading the past: current approaches to interpretation
in archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Bruce
Trigger, A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Lynn
Meskell and Robert W. Pruecel (eds.). A Companion to Social Archaeology.
Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. [Optional to purchase]
Practicalities:
This is a course in the course of being constructed, so
expect changes in the reading list for every week. A
hand-out will be distributed every week on Tuesdays and those will include
updates on the syllabus for the following week (readings, discussion schedule,
etc) as we move along in the semester.
Each student is required to do the weekly readings for the
course and participate in class discussions. Each class is dedicated
to a theoretical problem, which will be discussed analytically in reference to
assigned readings.
Requirements:
1. Short writing assignments and brief class presentations:
Students will occasionally be asked to volunteer to present in class a selected
critical article or book chapter related to the overall topic of the week. The
assigned student will also guide the discussion on that reading. On the
following week, the same student will submit a 4-5 page response paper
pertaining to the problems addressed in the article and raised during the
discussion. Depending on the
number of students in class, all students will present and write on at least
1-2 articles by the end of the semester.
2. Museum visit and writing on
artifacts: Involves
a visit to Portland Art Museums People of the River: Native Arts of the
Oregon Territory exhibition, choosing your favorite artifact and writing about
it. You will be expected to address issues of landscape demarcation, spatial
definition, monumentality, cultural representation, pictorial narrative, and/or
historical commemoration. The idea is to re-imagine the artifact to its
original environmental and cultural context, and compare its current status as
an exhibited artifact. Some special readings will be assigned to guide you.
Details to follow.
See the museums webpage:
http://web.pam.org/asp/special_exhibitions/exhibitions.asp?exhibitionID=21
3. Research project: The students will choose a
research topic in collaboration with the instructor and turn it into a project.
The project should involve an analytical and critical discussion of a
theoretical approach and its application to an archaeological case study. The
main aim in the research project is the bridge the apparent gap between
theoretical discussions in
archaeology and the material evidence. The project will involve a number
of a 15-20 min presentation and a number of submissions throughout the semester
(proposal, draft, final paper). Take note of submission dates on the syllabus
and start thinking about your research project within the first three weeks of
the semester.
Introduction: Basic definitions and preliminary discussion.
Archaeology, material culture. The ancient material practices that are
concerned with the past. The idea of the material manifestations of the past,
collective consciousness of ancestral history, collective memory.
Start reading on your own. Hodder and Hutson 2003. Reading
the Past.
Readings of
interest:
Winter, Irene J.;
2000. Babylonian archaeologists of the(ir) Mesopotamian past, in Proceedings
of the First International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. P Matthiae et al
(eds.); Universit degli studi di Roma La Sapienza,: Roma, 1785-1789. (mrs
door)
Van Dyke, Ruth M. & Susan E. Alcock;
2003. Archaeologies of memory: an introduction, in Archaeologies of
memory. Ruth M. Van Dyke & Susan E. Alcock (eds.); Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing, 1-13. (mrs door)
Mayor, Adrienne;
2000. The first fossil hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman times. Princeton:
Princeton University Press. (contact mr)
Archaeology as a modern discipline or a discipline of
modernity. What is modernity? Archaeology among the social sciences.
Readings
Hodder and Hutson
2003. Reading the Past. 1-19.
Thomas, Julian;
2004. Archaeology and modernity. London and New York: Routledge.
Chapter 1. The emergence of modernity and
the constitution of archaeology, 1-34.
Chapter 2. Archaeology and the tensions of
modernity, 35-54.
Colonialism, antiquarianism and the birth of archaeology:
mapping and inventing (not discovering!) ancient landscapes, co-opting
ancestral geographies, controlling the past in the Near East. Classicizing
paradigm of 19th century discourse: the case of Mesopotamia.
Readings
Skim Trigger 27-73.
Gosden, Chris; 2004. The past and the
foreign countries: colonial and post-colonial archaeology and anthropology, in
A Companion to Social Archaeology. Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Pruecel (eds.).
Oxford: Blackwell, 161-178.
Bahrani, Zainab; 1998. Conjuring
Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past, in Archaeology under
fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediteranean and Middle
East. L.
Meskell (ed.), Routledge: London and New York, 159-174.
Bohrer,
Frederick N.; 2003. Orientalism and visual culture : imagining Mesopotamia
in nineteenth-century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Pages 42-66.
Presentation (Adonia)
Turner,
Bryan S.; 2001. On the concept of axial space: Orientalism and the originary,
Journal of Social Archaeology 1: 62-74.
Nationalism, nation state and the use of archaeology in
ideologies of modern states. The museums, museum display and imaginary pasts.
The case of Germany.
Readings
Arnold, Bettina;
1990. The past as propaganda: totalitarian archaeology in Nazi Germany, Antiquity
64:
464-78.
Bohrer,
Frederick N.; 2003. Germanys Mesopotamia, 1899 to 1915: beyond the 19th
century horizon in Orientalism and visual culture : imagining Mesopotamia
in nineteenth-century Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
272-313.
Shnirelman, Victor
A.; 1996. The faces of nationalist archaeology in Russia, in Nationalism
and archaeology in Europe. Margarita Daz-Andreu and Timothy Champion (eds.).
Boulder: Westview Press, 218-242.
Presentation
(Alex and Chris)
Bernbeck,
Reinhard; 2000. The exhibition of architecture and the architecture of
exhibition: the changing face of the Pergamon museum, Archaeological
Dialogues 7: 98-124, bibliography 138-145.
Diebold, William J.;
1995 "The Politics of Derestoration:
The Aegina Pediments and the German Confrontation with the
Past," Art Journal 54: 60-66.
Gordon Childe and culture-history. The Neolithic Revolution
and the Urban Revolution. The emergence of the social in archaeological
theory.
Readings
Trigger 148-206
(Read through/skim).
Childe, V. Gordon;
1942. Archaeology and history in What happened in history, London: Max Parrish,
(1960 edition) 1-17. (E-reserve, also stacks CB 311. C53W)
Childe, V. Gordon;
1950. The urban revolution, Town Planning Review 21: 3-17 (Our copy
from Foundations of Social Archaeology: Selected Writings of V. Gordon
Childe, Thomas C. Patterson and Charles E. Orser (eds.), Altamira Press:
Walnut Creek 2004: 107-116). (E-reserve)
Hodder,
Ian; 2004. The social in archaeological theory: an historical and
contemporary perspective in A Companion to Social Archaeology: 3-22. (Book on
Reserve)
Presentation
article (Mireille)
Wailes, Bernard;
1996. V. Gordon Childe and the relations of production, in Craft
specialization and social evolution: in memory of V. Gordon Childe. Bernard Wailes (ed.). University Museum
Symposium Series Volume VI, University Museum Monography 93. Philadelphia: The University Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology of Pennsylvania, 3-14. [Mireille]
Post-world war archaeology in America. Gordon Willey: towards an
ecological understanding of archaeological landscapes.
Readings
Willey, Gordon R.
and.
Philip Phillips; 1958. Method and theory in American archaeology. University of
Chicago Press. Pages 1-57. (E-reserve but also Stacks E61.W7- please dont
check out).
Willey, Gordon R.;
1953. Prehistoric settlement patterns in the Vir valley Peru. Washington DC. Pages
1-12 and 400-421. (E-reserve but to see the whole book, see also Stacks
F3429.1V77 W56 1953).
Wandsnider, LuAnn; 1998. Regional scale
processes and archaeological landscape units, in Unit issues in
archaeology: measuring time, space, and material. Ann F. Ramenofsky
and Anastasia Steffen (eds.). Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry. Salt Lake
City: The University of Utah Press, 87-102. (E-reserve but also Stacks CC75 U53
1998).
Presentation
(Christine)
Knapp, A. Bernard and Wendy Ashmore; 1999.
Archaeological landscapes: constructed, conceptualized, ideational, in Archaeologies
of landscape: contemporary perspectives. W. Ashmore and A.B. Knapp (eds.),
Blackwell: Malden MA, 1-30. (E-reserve but also Stacks CC75 A655 1999).
Binford and Processual archaeology. Ecological evolutionism and
scientific method of interpreting the past.
Readings
Trigger 289-328
(Read through/skim). Hodder and Hutson, Chapter 2.
Binford, Lewis R.;
1967. Smudge pits and hide smoking: the use of analogy in archaeological
reasoning, American antiquity 32: 1-12. (E-reserve)
Munson, Patrick J;
1969. Comments on Binfords Smudge pits and hide smoking: the use of analogy
in archaeological reasoning American antiquity 34: 83-85.
(E-reserve)
Binford, Lewis R.;
1972. Archaeological reasoning and smudge pits - revisited, in An
archaeological perspective. New York and London: Seminar Press, 52-58. (E-reserve)
Binford, Lewis R.;
1980. Willow smoke and dogs tails: hunter-gatherer settlement systems and
archaeological site formation, American Antiquity 45: 4-20.
(E-reserve)
Binford, Lewis R.;
1972. Archaeological perspectives, in An archaeological perspective. New York and London:
Seminar Press, 78-104. (E-reserve)
The critique of Binford: doubts about the scientific method and
positivism. The response from social theory.
Readings
Tilley, Christopher
and Michael Shanks; 1987. Reconstructing archaeology: theory and practice. Cambridge
University Press; Cambridge, pages 7-67. (Reserve)
Hodder and Hutson, 2 Processual and
systems approaches 20-44.
Presentation:
Yoffee, Norman and
Andrew Sherratt; 1993. Introduction: the sources of archaeological theory, in
Archaeological theory: who sets the agenda. N Yoffee and A
Sherratt (eds.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-9. (E-reserve: Stacks
CC72 A65 1993)
[Start thinking about Research projects, meet with Omur for
suggestions.]
The Annales school and Fernand Braudel: applications
of a Braudelian approach to landscape archaeology.
Readings
Braudel, Fernand; 1972. The
Mediterranean and the Mediterranean world in the age of Philip II. Harper and Row: New
York. Translation of La Mditerrane et le monde Mditerranen lՃpoque de
Philippe II. Librairie Armand Colin: Paris, 1966. Volume 1 Mountains come
first pages 25-53. (Reserve Main and Stacks DE 80 B7713 1972)
Bintliff,
John; 1991. The contribution of an Annaliste/structural history
approach to archaeology, in The Annales School and archaeology. John Bintliff (ed.);
New York University Press: New York, 1-33. (E-reserve)
Barker,
Graeme; 1991. Two Italys, one valley: an Annaliste perspective in The
Annales School and archaeology. John Bintliff (ed.); New York University
Press: New York, 34-56. (E-reserve)
The Corrupting Sea: problem-oriented approaches. The ideas of
cross-cultural and interregional interaction, interconnectivity and trade:
various economic models. Bronze age world system of the Mediterranean.
Readings
Horden, Peregrine and Nicholas Purcell;
2000. The corrupting sea: A study of the Mediterranean history, Blackwell: Oxford.
Read A geographical expression pp. 9-25 and Connectivity 123-152. Also look
at Table of contents about the range of topics that the work addresses.
(E-reserve: Stacks DE 59 H7 2000) .
Shaw, Brent D.; 2001. Challenging Braudel:
a new vision of the Mediterranean, Journal of Roman Archaeology 14: 419-453.
Sherratt, Andrew and Susan Sherratt; 1998.
Small worlds: interaction and identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, in The
Aegean and the Orient in the Second millennium. Proceedings of the
50th anniversary symposium Cincinnati, 18-20 April 1997. Eric H.
Cline and Diane Harris-Cline (eds.); Universit de Lige. Lige, pp. 329-342.
(E-reserve)
Contextual archaeology: the multiple meanings of material
culture in the post-structuralist discourse. The problem of meaning and symbolism
in archaeology.
Readings
Hodder and
Hutson, Reading the past. Chapter 3. Structuralist,
post-structuralist and semiotic archaeologies, pp 45-74 and Chapter 8.
Contextual archaeology, pp 156-205.
Tilley,
Christopher; 1989. Interpreting material culture, in The meanings of
things: material culture and symbolic expression. Ian Hodder (ed.).
London: Unwin Hyman, 185-194. (Reserve Main CC72.4 M43 1989).
Thomas,
Julian; 1993. The hermeneutics of megalithic space, in Interpretative
archaeology. C Tilley (ed.); Providence: Berg, pp. 73-97. (E-reserve: Stacks
CC72 I56 1993)
Hodder,
Ian; 1992. Symbols in action, in Theory and pactice in archaeology. Routledge: London,
24-44. (Reserve Main CC 173 H63 1992).
Post-processual archaeologist goes to the field: towards a
reflexive archaeology.
Readings
Hodder and
Hutson, Reading the past. Chapter 9. Postprocessual archaeology
(206-235).
Hodder, Ian; 1992. The Haddenham
causewayed enclosure a hermeneutic circle in Theory and practice in
archaeology. London: Routledge, 213-240.
(E-reserve)
Hodder, Ian; 1999. Towards a
reflexive method in The archaeological process: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell., pp 80-104 (E-reserve).
Presentation
(Provo)
Wylie,
Alison; 2002. Heavily decomposing red herrings: middle ground in the
anti-/postprocessualism wars in Thinking from things: essays in the
philosophy of archaeology. University of California Press: Berkeley, 171-178.
(E-reserve: Stacks CC 72 W88 2002)
Archaeologies of gender and sexuality: Social distribution of
labor and domestic contexts. Women in perhistory, ritual contexts.
Readings
Gero, John
M. and Margaret Conkey; 1991. Tensions, pluralities and engendering
archaeology: an introduction to women and prehistory, in Engendering
archaeology: women and prehistory. John M Gero and Margaret Conkey (eds.),
Blackwell: Malden MA, 3-30. (E-reserve)
Joyce,
Rosemary; 2004. Embodied subjectivity: gender, femininity, masculinty,
sexuality, in A companion to social archaeology: 82-95. (Reserve
Main CC72.4 C67 2004).
Pollock,
Susan ; 1991. Women in a mens world: images of Sumerian women, in Engendering
archaeology: women and prehistory. John M Gero and Margaret Conkey (eds.),
Blackwell: Malden MA, 366-387. (E-reserve)
Conkey, Margaret; 2000. Meanwhile back at
the village: debating the archaeologies of sexuality, in Archaeologies of
sexuality. Schmidt, Robert A. and Barbara L. Voss (eds.)London and New
York: Routledge, 287-294.
Presentation (Gwendolyn)
Meskell, Lynn; 2000. Re-em(bed)ding sex:
domesticity, sexuality, and ritual in New Kingdom Egypt, in Archaeologies
of sexuality. Schmidt, Robert A. and Barbara L. Voss (eds.)London and New
York: Routledge, 253-262.
[Research Paper topic proposals with preliminary bibliography
due.]
Discussion of People of the River exhibit assignment.
Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley,
1987. Presenting the Past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum in Re-Constructing
archaeology: theory and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.
68-99. (E-reserve).
March 12-20 Spring Break
Ideology,
politics of materiality and the cultural representation of space in the
archaeological record.
Readings
Eagleton; Terry; 1991. What is
ideology? in Ideology: an introduction. Verso:
London, 1991, pp. 1-32. (E-reserve)
DeMarrais, Elizabeth; Luis Jaime Castillo; Timothy Earle; 1996.
Ideology, materialization and power strategies, Current Anthropology 37: 15-31.
(E-reserve-accessible through JSTOR-Reed Library Databases page)
Hodder and
Hutson, Reading the past. Chapter 4. Marxism and ideology, pp
75-89.
Archaeologies of social memory. Halbwachss concept of
collective memoryt and its applications in archaeological theory.
Readings
Halbwachs, Maurice; 1992. On collective
memory. Lewis A. Coser (ed. and trans.); originally published as Les
cadres sociaux de la mmoire (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1952) and La
topographie lgendaire des vangiles en terre sainte: Etude de mmoire
collective (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1941). Chicago: The
University of Chicago Press. Pages 37-53. (E-reserve- Stacks BF378. S65 h35
1992)
Alcock, Susan E.; 2002. Archaeologies of
the Greek past: landscape, monuments, and memories. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Pages 1-35.
Meskell, Lynn; 2003. Memorys materiality:
ancestral presence, commemorative practice and disjunctive locales, in Archaeologies
of memory. Ruth M. Van Dyke & Susan E. Alcock (eds.); Oxford: Blackwell
publishing, 34-55.
Agency and social practice. Various social and individual
agencies in the sphere of material culture; social practices and the making of
artifacts and architectural space.
Readings
Hodder and
Hutson, Reading the past. Chapter 5. Agency and practice, pp
90-105.
Bourdieu,
Pierre; 1990. Structures, habitus, practices in The logic of practice. R. Nice (trans.),
Stanford University Press: Stanford California, 52-65.
Dobres, Marcia-Anne and John E. Robb; 2000.
Agency in archaeology: paradigm or platitude? in Agency in archaeology. Marcia-Anne Dobres
and John E. Robb (eds.). London and New York: Routledge, 3-17.
Smith, Adam T; 2001. The Limitations of
Doxa: Agency and Subjectivity from an Archaeological Point of View. Journal of Social Archaeology 1(2): 155-171. (E-reserve)
Joyce, Arthur A.; 2000. The founding of
Mont Alban: sacred propositions and social practices in Agency in
archaeology. Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb (eds.). London and New
York: Routledge, 71-91.
Style and technology in-between archaeology and art history:
technological style or material style. New definitions of the material world
and its meanings, through a critical approach to technologies of production of
artifacts.
Readings
Chilton, Elizabeth S.; 1999. Material
meanings and meaningful materials: an introduction, in Material meanings:
critical approaches to the interpretation of material culture. Elizabeth S. Chilton
(ed.); Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry. Salt Lake City: The University of
Utah Press, 1-6.
Wobst, H. Martin; 1999. Style in
archaeology or archaeologists in style, in Material meanings: critical
approaches to the interpretation of material culture. Elizabeth S. Chilton
(ed.); Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry. Salt Lake City: The University of
Utah Press, 118-132.
Dietler, Michael and Ingrid Herbich; 1998.
Habitus, techniques, style: an integrated approach to the social
understanding of material culture and boundaries in The archaeology of
social boundaries. M. T. Stark (ed.); Washington and London: Smithsonian
Institution Press, 232-263.
Winter, Irene J.; 1998. The affective
properties of styles: An inquiry into analytical process and the inscription of
meaning in art history, in Picturing Science, Producing Art, C.A. Jones and P.
Galison (eds.), New York & London: Routledge; 55-77.
Presentation (Eva)
Ingold, Tim; 2000. Society, nature and the
concept of technology, in The perception of the environment: essays in
livelihood, dwelling and skill. New York & London: Routledge: 312-322.
Empires, narrative and history: material and imaginary
constructions of landscapes and architectural space.
Readings
Sinopoli, Carla M.; 1994. The archaeology
of empires, Annual review of anthropology 23: 159-180.
Smith, Adam; 2003. Polities in The
political landscape. University of California Press: 149-183.
Jennings, Justin and Willy Ypez lvarez; 2001. Architecture, local
elites and imperial entanglements: the Wari empire and the Cotahuasi valley of
Peru, Journal of Field Archaeology 28: 143-159.
Alcock, Susan E.; 2001. The
reconfiguration of memory in the eastern Roman empire, in Empires:
perspectives from archaeology and history, S. E. Alcock et.al. (eds.), Cambridge:
323-350.
Phenomenology of architectural space: interpretations of
archaeological places. Concepts of natural place, landscape and the social
space.
Readings
Blake, Emma; 2004. Space, spatiality and
archaeology,in A companion to social archaeology, 215-229. (Reserve
Main CC72.4 C67)
Tilley, Christopher; 1994. Space, place,
landscape and perception: phenomenological perspectives, A phenomenology of
landscapes: places, paths, monuments. Oxford/Providence: Berg, pp. 7-34.
(E-reserve)
Hirsch, Eric; 1995. Landscape: between
place and space, in The anthropology of landscape: perspectives on place
and space. Eric Hirsch and Michael OHanlon (eds.); Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1-30. (E-reserve)
Presentation (Joey)
Nora, Pierre; 1989. Between memory and
history: Les lieux de memoire, Representations 26: 7-24.
(E-reserve/JSTOR)
Archaeology and the problems of historical representation.
Readings
Ankersmit, F. R.; 2001. In praise of
subjectivity, in Historical representation. Stanford University
Press: Stanford, California, 75-103.
Bernbeck, Reinhard; 2005. The past as fact
and fiction: from historical novels to novel histories in Archaeologies of
the Middle East: critical perspectives. S Pollock and R Bernbeck (eds.). Blackwell:
97-121. (Reserve Main DS 56 A735 2005)
Presentation (Matthew)
Moser, Stephanie; 2001. Archaeological
representation: the visual conventions for constructing knowledge about the
past, in Archaeological theory today. Ian Hodder (ed.). Polity Press:
Cambridge, 262-283. (E-reserve)
Politics
and cultural heritage: a post-colonial perspective. Archaeological places as
embattled sites of local identities.
Readings
Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel; 2004. Politics,in A
companion to social archaeology, 315-234. (Reserve
Main CC72.4 C67)
Bernbeck, Reinhard
and Susan Pollock; 1996. Ayodha, archaeology and identity, Current
Anthropology 37: 138-142. (JSTOR database)
Guha-Takurta,
Tapati; 2003. Archaeology and the monument: an embattled site of history and
memory in contemporary India, in Monuments and memory, made and unmade. Robert s. Nelson and
Margaret Olin (eds.), University of Chicago Press, 233-257. (E-reserve)
[Talk at Portland Art Museum (1219 S.W. Park Avenue),
Whitsell Auditorium 6:00 pm.]
Dr. Frederick N. Bohrer, Associate Professor of Art, Hood
College, and author of Orientalism in Visual Culture: Imagining Mesopotamia
in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student presentations of research topics. Each presentation:
10-15 min. Discussion 15 min.
|
Joey |
Societ archaeology: nationalism and archaeology. |
|
Matthew |
Acquisition of objective data: an interdisciplinary problem. |
|
Provo |
Interpretation of architectural space; Byzantine churches of
Cappadocia. |
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student presentations of research topics. Each presentation:
10-15 min. Discussion 15 min.
|
Brian |
Role of the museum as an institution. |
|
Adonia |
Chaco Canyon: multiple readings of a place through
archaeology's material objects. |
|
Gwendolyn |
Repatriation act: the construction and appropriation of Native
American "heritage" in archaeological discourse. |
|
Christine |
Archaeoastronomy: Mayan observation and observatories. Gender
and power relations. |
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student presentations of research topics. Each presentation:
10-15 min. Discussion 15 min.
|
Alexander |
Landscape archaeology and religion: the Incan huacas. |
|
Mireille |
Considering Braudel's theories; olive cultivation in
the Mediterranean during the Dark Ages. |
|
Christopher |
History as a textual representation: material culture and its
contexts. |
[Research Paper drafts due.]
Student presentations of research topics. Each presentation:
10-15 min. Discussion 15 min.
|
Eva |
The question of style: archaeological and
art-historical perspectives. Late Bronze Age exchange goods in the
Mediterranean. |
Discussion:
Archaeology, the politics of
cultural heritage and the contemporary culture: what can archaeology offer.
Reading:
Tilley, Christopher; 1998. Archaeology as a socio-political
action in the present in Reader in archaeological theory: post-processual
and cognitive approaches. David S. Whitley (ed.), Routledge: London and New York,
315-330.
May 12 Research Papers due.