Re: poststructuralism and archaeology

Read, Dwight ANTHRO (Read@ANTHRO.SSCNET.UCLA.EDU)
Tue, 12 Apr 1994 13:57:00 PDT

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Thomas writes:

" It still means that archaeology
is a fundamentally interpretive enterprise, but one which deals with how
people
*lived through* their material conditions, rather than just leaving all this
stuff ('sticks and bones') lying around."

Sounds like reinventing the wheel to me. This sounds like the rationale for
processual archaeology only stated in slightly different words.

D. Read
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