ANTHRO 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: National Environmental Policy Act, Radiocarbon Dating, Antiquities Act
6 Mar 2019
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Bridging arguments -- middle range theory : how do generate test implications about something you don"t know about, two ways, ethnographic analogy, experimental archaeology. The new or processual archaeology of the paradigm shift (thomas kuhn: culturalism materialism -- material items (infrastructure) allows for reconstructing structure and superstructure of culture. Archaeology was no longer limited to solely to. Post processual anthropology -- 1990"s: engendered by the post modernism and deconstructionist movements in literary and. Political theory: reaction to the difficulties in operationalizing the new archaeology, movement toward a more humanistic approach -- critical of science. Not much change: archaeology has not been greatly influenced by postmodernism. Significance of an archaeological site: garbage doesn"t lie - or at least, not in the same ways as history and ethnography - (rathje"s project de garbage") Employment in archaeology: academic, private sector crm, public sector crm, archaeology is the largest mode of employment in the field of anthropology and over.
