ANT314H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clifford Geertz, Social Anthropology, Lepenski Vir
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Hodder 1982 theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view. Hodder 1990 the domestication of europe. Topics 3 & 4: processualism 1960 present. 1975 : behavioural, darwinist, processual is still continuing then later divided into two branches. Social agency: emphasizes that humans are thinking and they are conscious individuals not just reacting to outside forces. A conscious alternative to processual archaeology began to develop in the [late] 1970s. By 1985 ian hodder had labeled this new trend postprocessual archaeology. Postprcessual archaeology can be regarded as the inevitable rediscovery of the concept of culture as a source of cross-culturally (get rest from slides) But this discovery was accompanied by archaeologists being exposed to several interrelated intellectual movements, at least two of which were keen on challenging authority in the political as well as intellectual. The first influence was the marxist-inspired social anthropology that had developed in france in the 1960s and already had influenced british social anthropology.
