Overview

In the last decade, a new conception of culture has emerged in sociology, out of the ashes of modernism and post-modernism, that has the potential to radically change how we think about cultural objects and groups in archaeology. Archaeology beyond Postmodernity re-evaluates current interpretive and methodological tools and adapts them to the new position. Many examples are given from Western and indigenous sciences to illustrate this different understanding of science and culture. In addition, several case studies demonstrate how it can be applied to interpret historic and prehistoric cultures.

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This book is a proposal for and a stout defense of an archaeology based the ideas of Bruno Latour and Actor Network Theory. Martin not only lays out the central ideas of a Latourian archaeology but he also situates the ideas in relation to other approaches in theoretical archaeology. The book also provides two sustained archaeological examples which will be of interest to both American and British audiences: the prehistoric mounds of Hopewell in north America, and the Bronze Age of lowland Britain. The end result is an important book that explains and substantiates a new approach in archaeology and provides an exciting challenge for existing perspectives in the discipline. -- Ian Hodder, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

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Andrew Martin is an independent scholar and formerly lecturer and researcher at U.K. universities. He has been the principal investigator for the Wessex Barrow Project.

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