Symbolic and Structural Archeology
- New York: Cambridge University Press 2006
- viii, 188p.
Part I. The Development of Theory: 1. Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view Ian Hodder 2. Artefacts as products of human categorisation processes D. Miller 3. Social formation, social structures and social change Christopher Tilley 4. Epistemological issues raised by a structuralist archaeology M. Alison Wylie Part II. The Search for Models 5. Matters material and ideal Susan Kus 6. House power: Swahili space and symbolic markers Linda Wiley Donley 7. The interpretation of spatial patterning in settlement residues H. L. Moore 8. Decoration as ritual symbol: a theoretical proposal and an ethnographic study in southern Sudan Mary Braithwaite 9. Structures and strategies: an aspect of the relationship between social hierarchy and cultural change D. Miller 10. Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study Michael Parker Pearson; Part III. Application: The Analysis of Archaeological Materials: 11. Boundedness in art and society Margaret W. Conkey 12. Ideology, symbolic power and ritual communication: a reinterpretation of Neolithic mortuary practices Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley 13. Ideology, change and the European Early Bronze Age Stephen Shennan 14. Sequences of structural change in the Dutch Neolithic Ian Hodder Part IV. Commentary: Childe's offspring Mark Leone.