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Thinking from things : essays in the philosophy of archaeology

In this long-awaited compendium of new and newly revised essays, Alison Wylie explores how archaeologists know what they know. Examining the history and methodology of Anglo-American archaeology, Wylie puts the tumultuous debates of the last thirty years in historical and philosophical perspective
eBook, English, ©2002
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2002
1 online resource (xviii, 339 pages)
9780520935402, 9780520223608, 9780520223615, 9781597349512, 0520935403, 0520223608, 0520223616, 1597349518
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: Introduction: Philosophy from the Ground Up; Part Two: How New Is the New Archaeology, and Other Historical Essays; 1. How New Is the New Archaeology?; 2. The Typology Debate; 3. The Conceptual Core of the New Archaeology; 4. Emergent Tensions in the New Archaeology; 5. Arguments for Scientific Realism; 6. Between Philosophy and Archaeology; Part Three: Interpretive Dilemmas Crisis Arguments in the New Archaeology; 7. The Interpretive Dilemma; 8. Epistemological Issues Raised by Symbolic and Structuralist Archaeology; 9. The Reaction against Analogy