Thomas C Patterson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3617558 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Thomas C Patterson |
| NOMBRES | Thomas C |
| APELLIDO | Patterson |
| FIRMA | PATTERSON T C |
| AFILIACIONES | Temple University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 534 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1966 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Politics of Egalitarianism
The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cult…
Some Postwar Theoretical Trends in U.S. Archaeology
An analysis of the theoretical tendancies of U.S. archaeology in the last forty years aims at demonstrating that archeology, as other disciplines, is closely related to broader intellectual movements or paradigms
Exploitation and Class Formation in the Inca State
Inca society was characterized by conditions of expanded exploitation which were produced by new contradictions that emerged as the composition of the dominant class changed. The expansionist policies of the Inca ruling class were an attempt to resolve problems resulting from an internal organization based on kinship. The collateral kin of the ruler were necessary for maintaining the dominant position of the Incas, but their claims to the throne …
Trigger, Bruce Graham
Marx, Karl
Childe, Vere Gordon (Theory)
Karl Marx, Anthropologist
A Social History of Anthropology in the United States
"This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the social history of anthropology in the United States, examining the circumstances that gave rise to the discipline and illuminating the role of anthropology in the modern world. Thomas C. Patterson considers the shifting social and political-economic conditions in which anthropological knowledge has been produced and deployed, the appearance of practices focused on particular regions or groups,…
A Social History of Anthropology in the United States
In part due to the recent Yanomami controversy, which has rocked anthropology to its very core, there is renewed interest in the discipline's history and intellectual roots, especially amongst anthropologists themselves. The cutting edge of anthropological research today is a product of earlier questions and answers, previous ambitions, preoccupations and adventures, stretching back one hundred years or more. This book is the first comprehensive …
Marx’s Ghost
How did our current society come into being and how is it similar to as well as different from its predecessors? These key questions have transfixed archaeologists, anthropologists and historians for decades and strike at the very heart of intellectual debate across a wide range of disciplines. Yet scant attention has been given to the key thinkers and theoretical traditions that have shaped these debates and the conclusions to which they have gi…
Social Change Theories in Motion
This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators, living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others built on those perspectives; a few changed the way …
Too much common sense, not enough critical thinking
Theory and Practice of Archaeology
For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods.Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and explain field findings and help them to see the link between theory and practice
Shell-bead money and the mission period economy of Alta California
This article investigates basic economic categories that are presupposed by archaeologists to connect archaeological data and to explain the sociocultural patterns and processes of change in past societies. Its topical foci are the concepts of exchange, value, and money; its societal focus is the mission period of Alta California; its goal is to use Marx's concepts of value and money to articulate the concrete archaeological and historical eviden…
An Archaeology of the History of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Anthropology
Historians of pre-professional anthropology in nineteenth-century U.S. society have generally emphasized the roles of individuals and institutions in the development of the field. Their reliance on particular kinds of archives and sources has led some of them to neglect the work of intellectuals of color, many of whom had important anthropological insights. Thus, the hegemonic genealogies of U.S. anthropology make it difficult to discern alternat…
Response to Csilla Dallos's Review of Karl Marx, Anthropologist
Michael Clark Kearney (1937-2009)
Minorities in Anthropology
Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought
Susan Kent's Vision of a Genuinely Integrated Anthropology
Susan Kent advocated an integrated, integrative, and integrating anthropology at a time when some practitioners championed fragmentation. Her anthropology was a critical, engaged one that recognized the importance of class structures constituted in economic terms and their articulation and interplay with socially and culturally constituted gender, ethnic, and racial hierarchies. This chapter explores how she conceptualized this integrated, critic…
The Turn to Agency
The aim of this paper is to consider why the idea of agency—which was elaborated by Roy Bhaskar, Anthony Giddens, and others in the 1970s—was adopted by and became so popular among archaeologists in the 1990s. This involves examining not only the idea of agency itself, but also its connections with an array of closely related notions in everyday and philosophical discourse: the individual, subject, self, and person. It also requires consideration…
Craft specialization, the reorganization of production relations and state formation
Since the late 1970s, archaeologists have been concerned with the origins and development of craft specialization in early civilizations. More recently, some have examined the organization of production, the identities of artisans, the use and consumption of the goods they produced, and the cultural and social meanings of those objects. Much of this literature is rooted in the conceptual framework of societal evolutionism, which was formulated by…
Class conflict, state formation and archaism
During the last decade, archaeologists have written with steadily increasing frequency about processes of class and state formation that occurred in various precapitalist societies. While some have focused on the origins of states, others have considered the reorganizations that took place in the wake of the expansion of territorially based states. Many acknowledge a causal connection between social stratification and the state, even though they …
Subtle Matters of Theory and Emphasis
A partir des annees 1960, deux visions divergentes de la nature humaine en sont venues a dominer l'etude des societes communautaires ou a parente. L'une provient des vues liberales de John Locke (et non Thomas Hobbes) ; l'autre s'est elaboree a partir de la critique adressee par Rousseau aux theories du contrat liberal et comprend les perspectives de Lewis Henry Morgan, Karl Marx et Frederick Engels. Dans les annees 1970, la premiere perspective …
A Social History of Anthropology in the United States
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious
Theory and Practice of Archaeology
For courses in Introduction to Archaeology Theory and Methods.Intended for the Introductory Archaeology course with the goal of teaching students how to think like archaeologists, this workbook includes activities that challenge students to interpret and explain field findings and help them to see the link between theory and practice
Making Alternative Histories
The Last Sixty Years
This paper provides an overview of the development of Americanist archeology in the United States.Since the 1920s, there have been two, and sometimes more, interpretive communities among Americanist archeologists in the United States.These reflect and are related to the development of U.S. society. One articulates the concerns of national capital and its allies; the other, the interests ofinternational capital and its allies. They are grounded in…
The Political Economy of Archaeology in the United States
The professionalization of archaeology in the late nineteenth century was linked to the growth of antiquities markets and the development of museums as institutions of education and social reproduction. Professional archaeologists moved into the universities in large numbers after World War II and then increasingly into the private sector after the mid-1970s. In the United States, archaeologists currently confront a highly segmented labor market …
The Inca Empire
The historical landscape - pre-state societies in the Andes, class and state formation - some theoretical considerations, class and state formation in the Andes Inca society before the Empire - the creation of Inca society, the prelude to Empire, the constitution of the Empire the impact of Empire - the formation and organization of the Imperial State, conquest, succession, and the changing composition of the Imperial ruling class quiescence and …
Social Archaeology in Latin America
This paper examines the historical development and theoretical underpinnings of the connections established between archaeology and Marxist social thought in Latin America. This dialogue began before the Russian Revolution and persists to the present day in the form of Latin American social archaeology
History and the Post-Processual Archaeologies
Craft specialization, the reorganization of production relations and state formation
Since the late 1970s, archaeologists have been concerned with the origins and development of craft specialization in early civilizations. More recently, some have examined the organization of production, the identities of artisans, the use and consumption of the goods they produced, and the cultural and social meanings of those objects. Much of this literature is rooted in the conceptual framework of societal evolutionism, which was formulated by…
Late Preceramic and Early Ceramic Cultures of the Central Coast of Peru
(1968). LATE PRECERAMIC AND EARLY CERAMIC CULTURES OF THE CENTRAL COAST OF PERU. Nawpa Pacha: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 115-133
The Turn to Agency
The aim of this paper is to consider why the idea of agency—which was elaborated by Roy Bhaskar, Anthony Giddens, and others in the 1970s—was adopted by and became so popular among archaeologists in the 1990s. This involves examining not only the idea of agency itself, but also its connections with an array of closely related notions in everyday and philosophical discourse: the individual, subject, self, and person. It also requires consideration…
The Inca Empire. The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State
A History of Archaeological Thought
Ideology, Class Formation, and Resistance in the Inca State
Discussion du probleme de l'ideologie dominante dans une societe de classes a partir du cas de l'Empire Inca : nature de cette ideologie, son effet sur la classe dominante et les classes dominees, sa transmission a l'interieur de la societe, le principe de coherence de cette societe, et la relation de l'economique au politique et a l'ideologie puisque la domination et l'exploitation ne sont pas dominees par cette meme ideologie
Polities in the Lurin Valley, Peru, During the Early Intermediate Period
The Early Intermediate Period, which can be dated from about 50 B.C. to A.D. 550 in calendrical time, has been the focus of considerable research by archaeologists on the central coast of Peru and its environ·s, the region that stretches from the Chancay Valley in the north to the Chilca Valley in the south and inland from the shores of the Pacific Ocean toward the continental divide in the Andes Mountains more than 100 km. ·to the east. This act…
Development, ecology, and marginal utility in anthropology
Merchant capital and the formation of the Inca state
Early Cultural Remains on the Central Coast of Peru
On the basis of investigations carried out during the early months of 1963, Patterson and Lanning reported the occurrence of three early cultural assemblages in the lower part of the Chill?n Valley on the central Peruvian coastThese were the Chivateros I and II assemblages, found in a stratified quarry-workshop site on Cerro Chiva teros, and the Oquendo complex which was found isolated at another site located about three kilometers away. The chro…
Shell-bead money and the mission period economy of Alta California
This article investigates basic economic categories that are presupposed by archaeologists to connect archaeological data and to explain the sociocultural patterns and processes of change in past societies. Its topical foci are the concepts of exchange, value, and money; its societal focus is the mission period of Alta California; its goal is to use Marx's concepts of value and money to articulate the concrete archaeological and historical eviden…
Exploitation and Class Formation in the Inca State
Inca society was characterized by conditions of expanded exploitation which were produced by new contradictions that emerged as the composition of the dominant class changed. The expansionist policies of the Inca ruling class were an attempt to resolve problems resulting from an internal organization based on kinship. The collateral kin of the ruler were necessary for maintaining the dominant position of the Incas, but their claims to the throne …
Tracing Archaeology's Past
Post‐structuralism, postmodernism
(1989). Post‐structuralism, postmodernism: Implications for historians. Social History: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 83-88
Archeology
Marx’s Ghost
How did our current society come into being and how is it similar to as well as different from its predecessors? These key questions have transfixed archaeologists, anthropologists and historians for decades and strike at the very heart of intellectual debate across a wide range of disciplines. Yet scant attention has been given to the key thinkers and theoretical traditions that have shaped these debates and the conclusions to which they have gi…
Conceptual Differences between Mexican and Peruvian Archaeology
SThis essay asks why interpretations of pre-Columbian history and state formation in Mexico and Peru are framed in different terms by archaeologists. While the differences are due in part to the empirical realities of the two civilizations, this essay explores how sociological considerations and theoretical orientations of archaeologists as they interpreted those empirical realities contributed to the construction of the interpretive differences
Early Cultural Remains on the Central Coast of Peru
On the basis of investigations carried out during the early months of 1963, Patterson and Lanning reported the occurrence of three early cultural assemblages in the lower part of the Chill?n Valley on the central Peruvian coastThese were the Chivateros I and II assemblages, found in a stratified quarry-workshop site on Cerro Chiva teros, and the Oquendo complex which was found isolated at another site located about three kilometers away. The chro…
A Preliminary Seriation of the Chimu Pottery Style
Archeology
Early Man in South America
Late Preceramic and Early Ceramic Cultures of the Central Coast of Peru
(1968). LATE PRECERAMIC AND EARLY CERAMIC CULTURES OF THE CENTRAL COAST OF PERU. Nawpa Pacha: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 115-133
Pattern and Process in the Early Intermediate Period Pottery of the Central Coast of Peru
Pre-Columbian Art and Later Indian Tribal Arts
Pre-Columbian Art and Later Indian Tribal Arts
America's Past
Archaeology
Polities in the Lurin Valley, Peru, During the Early Intermediate Period
The Early Intermediate Period, which can be dated from about 50 B.C. to A.D. 550 in calendrical time, has been the focus of considerable research by archaeologists on the central coast of Peru and its environ·s, the region that stretches from the Chancay Valley in the north to the Chilca Valley in the south and inland from the shores of the Pacific Ocean toward the continental divide in the Andes Mountains more than 100 km. ·to the east. This act…
Class and state formation
American Archaeologists Against Apartheid
Marxist Analyses and Social Anthropology
Part 1: Empiricism and Historical Materialism1. Maurice Godelier Modes of Production, Kinship, and Demographic Structures2. Raymond Firth The Sceptical Anthropologist? Social Anthropology and Marxist Views on Society3. Stephan Feuchtwang Investigating ReligionPart 2: Class and Class Consciousness4. Emmanuel Terray Classes and Class Consciousness in the Abron Kingdom of Gyaman5. Joel Kahn Economic Scale and the Cycle of Petty Commodity Production …
The Last Sixty Years
This paper provides an overview of the development of Americanist archeology in the United States.Since the 1920s, there have been two, and sometimes more, interpretive communities among Americanist archeologists in the United States.These reflect and are related to the development of U.S. society. One articulates the concerns of national capital and its allies; the other, the interests ofinternational capital and its allies. They are grounded in…
Ideology, Class Formation, and Resistance in the Inca State
Discussion du probleme de l'ideologie dominante dans une societe de classes a partir du cas de l'Empire Inca : nature de cette ideologie, son effet sur la classe dominante et les classes dominees, sa transmission a l'interieur de la societe, le principe de coherence de cette societe, et la relation de l'economique au politique et a l'ideologie puisque la domination et l'exploitation ne sont pas dominees par cette meme ideologie
Huánuco Pampa
Development, ecology, and marginal utility in anthropology
Merchant capital and the formation of the Inca state
Another Blow to Eurocentrism
Review of Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1 by Martin Bernal.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Archeology
Post‐structuralism, postmodernism
(1989). Post‐structuralism, postmodernism: Implications for historians. Social History: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 83-88
New Light on Athenian Democracy
Review of Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy by Ellen Meiksins Wood.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
History and the Post-Processual Archaeologies
Some theoretical tensions within and between the processual and postprocessual archaeologies
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