Robert W Preucel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107530 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert W Preucel |
| PRENOMES | Robert W |
| SOBRENOME | Preucel |
| ASSINATURA | PREUCEL R W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8127-2125 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 346 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Semioidentity
Semioidentity refers to the sign–identity relationship in its pragmatic and metapragmatic dimensions. A component of social semiotic analysis, the study of semioidentity offers a distinctive contribution to archaeology by making explicit the different kinds of signs and their functions in the interpretive process. It privileges indexical signs as a means of anchoring interpretation and thus provides opportunities for additional higher-order claim…
Vibrant Theory
The Predicament of Ontology
The ‘ontological turn’ is currently being touted in anthropology and other social sciences as a way of providing new insights into the global ecological crisis. This move encompasses a variety of posthumanist and New Materialist approaches including assemblage theory, vibrant matter, perspectivism and object-oriented ontology. Although distinctive, these approaches share an interest in animating things. Not surprisingly, archaeologists have taken…
Joyce, Rosemary
Sabloff, Jeremy Arac
Johnson, Matthew (Theory)
Willey, Gordon Randolph
In defence of representation
The 'ontological turn' in the social sciences is premised on the critique of representation. In this essay, I defend representation against some of the major criticisms advanced in archaeology. In developing my argument, I draw insights from the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and its incorporation in semiotic anthropology. I conclude that while it is not possible to go beyond representation, we can nonetheless improve our representational mo…
The Continuous Path
Continuous Path
Foraging, farming and village formation in the American Southwest
Over 30 years ago, Paul Minnis (1985) proposed the distinction between 'pristine domestication' and 'primary crop acquisition'. The former refers to the initial domestication of wild plant resources and is characterised by only a dozen or so places in the world, most notably China, the Near East and Mesoamerica. The latter refers to the local integration of crops that were domesticated elsewhere and is the more common process. The American Southw…
The Pueblo World Transformed
of this volume, have told me that the Columbian Consequences project served as a catalyst for the initial symposium entitled "Transformations during the Colonial Era: Divergent Histories in the American Southwest," subsequently published as this volume.They also asked me to write a few words about the Columbian Consequences effort, from a quarter-century perspective.The roots of Columbian Consequences run back to the late 1980s, a time of conside…
Ritual Processes of Repatriation
What do those who participate in repatriation-on behalf of the museums and the communities to whom there is return-most want people to know about it? Nine prominent scholars provide short commentaries in response to this special section on the ritual processes of repatriation. The discussants are museum professionals, Indigenous community members, repatriation claimants, and repatriation officers; these are not mutually exclusive categories. They…
Structuralism and its Archaeological Legacy
Structuralism is an important influence in the development of Anglo-American archaeology. Its basic insight is to conceptualize the world in terms of relationships between things rather than in terms of the things themselves. Alongside functionalism and adaptationalism, it played a seminal role in the early days of processual archaeology, particularly in the context of systems theory. Structuralism and its poststructural critiques were also centr…
Sacred Mesas
In 1680, Pueblo Indians and their Navajo and Apache allies in northern New Mexico rose up in arms against Spain, under whose rule they were living for eighty-two years. The Pueblo Revolt, also called the first American Revolution, is an American story of freedom and resistance to tyranny. This chapter analyses the Pueblo Revolt to highlight the ambiguities that prevail over what is and what is not prehistory. Once the Pueblos expelled the Spaniar…
An archaeology of NAGPRA
The Social Life of Pots
A Companion to Social Archaeology
List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart I: Knowledges:1. The in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Ian Hodder (Standford University)2. Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory: Bruce G. Trigger (McGill University)3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought: Thomas C. Patterson (University of California, Riverside)4. Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality: Rosemary A. Joyc…
The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the Formation of the Modern Pueblo World
The Pueblo Revolt and its aftermath (A.D. 1680-1696) was a crucial period in the history of the American Southwest. Previous studies of this era have focused primarily on the causes of the revolt, often casting it as an isolated and anomalous event. This article takes a different approach, investigating the effects of the revolt era on Pueblo cultures and communities in the years, decades, and centuries that followed the uprising of 1680. Recent …
Archaeological Semiotics
Envisioning Utopia
Pueblo Settlement, Architecture, and Social Change in the Pueblo Revolt Era, A.D. 1680 to 1696
In A.D. 1680, the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest united in a revolt that drove Spanish colonists out of Pueblo lands for more than a decade. Dramatic changes in the architecture, spatial organization, and settlement patterns of Pueblo villages occurred during this era as Pueblo leaders sought to revive traditional beliefs and practices. Semiotic and space syntax analyses of 10 Pueblo Revolt-era (1680–1696) villages reveal evidence for a…
Archaeological Pragmatics
To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Post processualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the 'other father'of semiotics, namely Charles Sanders Peirce
Evolutionary Archaeology
Processual and postprocessual archaeologies
Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]
Archaeological Pragmatics
To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Post processualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the 'other father'of semiotics, namely Charles Sanders Peirce
Ceramics and Ideology
Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
The postprocessual condition
The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the Formation of the Modern Pueblo World
The Pueblo Revolt and its aftermath (A.D. 1680-1696) was a crucial period in the history of the American Southwest. Previous studies of this era have focused primarily on the causes of the revolt, often casting it as an isolated and anomalous event. This article takes a different approach, investigating the effects of the revolt era on Pueblo cultures and communities in the years, decades, and centuries that followed the uprising of 1680. Recent …
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
The Predicament of Ontology
The ‘ontological turn’ is currently being touted in anthropology and other social sciences as a way of providing new insights into the global ecological crisis. This move encompasses a variety of posthumanist and New Materialist approaches including assemblage theory, vibrant matter, perspectivism and object-oriented ontology. Although distinctive, these approaches share an interest in animating things. Not surprisingly, archaeologists have taken…
In defence of representation
The 'ontological turn' in the social sciences is premised on the critique of representation. In this essay, I defend representation against some of the major criticisms advanced in archaeology. In developing my argument, I draw insights from the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce and its incorporation in semiotic anthropology. I conclude that while it is not possible to go beyond representation, we can nonetheless improve our representational mo…
Settlement Succession on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico
Previous explanations of puebloan settlement pattern change in the northern Rio Grande have largely been atheoretical and unparticularistic. In contrast, this study uses Hudson's theory of rural settlement to explain settlement change on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, from A.D. 1150 to 1550. Quadrat and nearest-neighbor analyses are used to describe settlement distribution, and basic descriptive statistics are used to characterize changes in s…
Envisioning Utopia
An archaeology of NAGPRA
Evolutionary Archaeology
Ritual Processes of Repatriation
What do those who participate in repatriation-on behalf of the museums and the communities to whom there is return-most want people to know about it? Nine prominent scholars provide short commentaries in response to this special section on the ritual processes of repatriation. The discussants are museum professionals, Indigenous community members, repatriation claimants, and repatriation officers; these are not mutually exclusive categories. They…
The Social Life of Pots
Obituaries
Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]
Settlement Succession on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico
Previous explanations of puebloan settlement pattern change in the northern Rio Grande have largely been atheoretical and unparticularistic. In contrast, this study uses Hudson's theory of rural settlement to explain settlement change on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico, from A.D. 1150 to 1550. Quadrat and nearest-neighbor analyses are used to describe settlement distribution, and basic descriptive statistics are used to characterize changes in s…
Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest
Farmers as Hunters
What the New Archaeology Has Accomplished [and Comments and Reply]
When Is a Kiva? And Other Questions about Southwestern Archaeology
Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies
The Representation of the Past
The postprocessual condition
Ceramics and Ideology
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Contemporary Archaeology in Theory
Evolutionary Archaeology
Obituaries
Archaeological Pragmatics
To what extent is semiotics an appropriate model for understanding material culture meaning? The answer to this question, of course, depends upon the kinds of semiotics that one is talking about. In our article we argue that Saussurean and post-Saussurean approaches favored by some Post processualists are incomplete and advocate an alternative approach inspired by the 'other father'of semiotics, namely Charles Sanders Peirce
Pueblo Settlement, Architecture, and Social Change in the Pueblo Revolt Era, A.D. 1680 to 1696
In A.D. 1680, the Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest united in a revolt that drove Spanish colonists out of Pueblo lands for more than a decade. Dramatic changes in the architecture, spatial organization, and settlement patterns of Pueblo villages occurred during this era as Pueblo leaders sought to revive traditional beliefs and practices. Semiotic and space syntax analyses of 10 Pueblo Revolt-era (1680–1696) villages reveal evidence for a…
Archaeological Semiotics
Envisioning Utopia
A Companion to Social Archaeology
List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart I: Knowledges:1. The in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective: Ian Hodder (Standford University)2. Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory: Bruce G. Trigger (McGill University)3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought: Thomas C. Patterson (University of California, Riverside)4. Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality: Rosemary A. Joyc…
The Archaeology of the Pueblo Revolt and the Formation of the Modern Pueblo World
The Pueblo Revolt and its aftermath (A.D. 1680-1696) was a crucial period in the history of the American Southwest. Previous studies of this era have focused primarily on the causes of the revolt, often casting it as an isolated and anomalous event. This article takes a different approach, investigating the effects of the revolt era on Pueblo cultures and communities in the years, decades, and centuries that followed the uprising of 1680. Recent …
The Social Life of Pots
An archaeology of NAGPRA
Sacred Mesas
In 1680, Pueblo Indians and their Navajo and Apache allies in northern New Mexico rose up in arms against Spain, under whose rule they were living for eighty-two years. The Pueblo Revolt, also called the first American Revolution, is an American story of freedom and resistance to tyranny. This chapter analyses the Pueblo Revolt to highlight the ambiguities that prevail over what is and what is not prehistory. Once the Pueblos expelled the Spaniar…
Structuralism and its Archaeological Legacy
Structuralism is an important influence in the development of Anglo-American archaeology. Its basic insight is to conceptualize the world in terms of relationships between things rather than in terms of the things themselves. Alongside functionalism and adaptationalism, it played a seminal role in the early days of processual archaeology, particularly in the context of systems theory. Structuralism and its poststructural critiques were also centr…
The Pueblo World Transformed
of this volume, have told me that the Columbian Consequences project served as a catalyst for the initial symposium entitled "Transformations during the Colonial Era: Divergent Histories in the American Southwest," subsequently published as this volume.They also asked me to write a few words about the Columbian Consequences effort, from a quarter-century perspective.The roots of Columbian Consequences run back to the late 1980s, a time of conside…
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