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An archaeology of capitalism
No full textContents:Enduring Structures and Historical Understanding
Understanding Enclosure
Houses, Fields, Maps and Cultures
Ordering the World
Archaeologies of Authority
Redefining the Domestic
Thinking about Objects
Conclusion: Towards an Archaeology of Capitalis
Progress, anti-isms and revolutionary subjects : the importance of transcending liberalism
No full textIdeas of landscape
No full text"Ideas of Landscape" offers an engaging discussion of the theory and practice of landscape archaeology today. Drawing on his local experience, Matthew Johnson focuses on the so-called English landscape tradition and discusses why it is so distinctive: it stands at some distance from North American and other approaches, in which "theory" plays a more prominent role. Johnson identifies the origins of this tradition in English Romanticism, through the influence of the "father of landscape history" W.G. Hoskins among others, and argues that the strengths and weaknesses of landscape archaeology can be traced back to the underlying theoretical discontents of the Romantic movement. He offers an alternative agenda, which maps more closely on to the established empirical strengths of landscape study and is more relevant both to the thrust of interdisciplinary landscape studies and to contemporary social concerns. Passionately and accessibly written, this engaging book takes up a crucial strand in archaeological thinking and examines it critically for the first time
Archaeological theory: an introduction, 2nd edition
No full textContents:Preface: The Contradictions of Theory. 1. Common Sense is Not Enough. 2. The ‘New Archaeology’. 3. Archaeology as a Science. 4. Middle-range Theory, Ethnoarchaeology and Material Culture Studies. 5. Culture and Process. 6. Thoughts and Ideologies. 7. Postprocessual and Interpretive Archaeologies. 8. Archaeology, Gender and Identity. 9. Archaeology and Cultural Evolution. 10. Archaeology and Darwinian Evolution. 11. Archaeology and History. 12. Archaeology, Politics and Culture. 13. Conclusion: The Future of Theory
English houses 1300-1800: vernacular architecture, social life
No full textJohnson applies his popular and engaging style to The English House, investigating the past of the thousands of old structures we see across the UK. Focusing on historical and social aspects of the houses and the people who lived in them, this book brings to life how our homes changed over the centuries to reflect our prioritie
On the particularism of English landscape archaeology
No full textThe aim of this paper is to explore the question: why is the archaeology of English historic landscapes apparently so provincial? Inevitably the response must be that matters are more complex. In this paper, I examine the work of W. G. Hoskins, the “father of English landscape history,” and draw attention to: the complex way in which landscape is embedded in nationalism; the relations between locale, province, and nation; and the way wider tensions, in particular of colonialism are embedded within Hoskins's own discourse. In conclusion, I examine ways in which this problematic continues to structure enquiry into the English landscape today and to inhibit a genuinely international and comparative approach to historic landscapes
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