Archaeology, Anthropology, and Material Things

According to Vere Gordon Childe, archaeology and anthropology represent “two complementary departments of the science of man”. Certainly, the two disciplines came of age in the nineteenth century, bound together by colonialism and universal evolutionism. In the United States the lodging of Americanist archaeology within university departments of archaeology, the hegemony of Boasian particularism, and the timely emergence of the neo-evolutionism of Leslie White and Julian Steward maintained the connection until the end of the millennium. More recently, the ethical problems involved in ethnoarchaeology have begun to be recognized. There is undoubtedly something troubling about studying people in an instrumentalist fashion, not as a means of understanding their own cultural world, or contemporary predicament, but as a means to the end of understanding other people entirely. Turning from archaeological approaches to persons to anthropological approaches to things, it is notable that the principal theoretical framework within material culture studies concerns itself with the process of objectification

Archaeology · Material culture · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History

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