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Author: Alice Beck Kehoe
Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781598740615
ISBN 10: 159874061
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 May 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Kehoe asserts that archaeology is a science remarkably suited to illustrating how societal biases and conventional dogmas affect interpretation, and even discovery, of empirical facts. She then exposes how acceptance of scientific explanations about archaeological phenomena is earned within the discipline. She is interested in how unorthodox explanations for complex scientific phenomena are treated; where innovative explanations are likely to arise within the archaeological profession; and how the social construction of archaeological science directs, to some degree, its core paradigms. Throughout her narrative, Kehoe introduces memorable innovators of methods, theories, and explanations. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. - S. R. Martin, CHOICE
Kehoe asserts that archaeology is a science remarkably suited to illustrating how societal biases and conventional dogmas affect interpretation, and even discovery, of empirical facts. She then exposes how acceptance of scientific explanations about archaeological phenomena is earned within the discipline. She is interested in how unorthodox explanations for complex scientific phenomena are treated; where innovative explanations are likely to arise within the archaeological profession; and how the social construction of archaeological science directs, to some degree, its core paradigms. Throughout her narrative, Kehoe introduces memorable innovators of methods, theories, and explanations. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. S. R. Martin, CHOICE
Author Information
Alice Beck Kehoe is in the department of anthropology at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is one of the pioneers of feminist research in the field and one of the best-known scholars on issues related to Native Americans, two controversial topics within archaeology. Kehoe is author of numerous articles and over a dozen books on these two subjects and on various other controversial topics within the field of archaeology, including the Kensington Runestone and shamanism. She has also authored two introductory textbooks for anthropologists and archaeologists.
