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Showing posts with label Theoretical perspectives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theoretical perspectives. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Problems with Bourdieu? We can help! Call now.

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I find that I am not the only one puzzling over the infatuation of archaeologists with the work of Pierre Broudieu and other incomprehensi...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

“Social Archaeology”: A good thing or a bad thing?

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            I am revising my textbook, The Aztecs , for a third edition. In the previous editions (1996 and 2003), I used the phrase “...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Middle-range theory: sloppy citations or epistemological confusion?

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I’m finishing up details for a paper on “empirical urban theory” that will be published in the Journal of Archaeological and Theory . Among...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

A “new” kind of agency theory, and perils of disciplinary isolation

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I have recently come across a new perspective on “agency theory” that makes lots of sense and has nothing to do with the “agency” lit...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Maya collapse: When theoretical preconceptions get in the way of understanding

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I just read a very nice summary of some of the current debates over the role of droughts in the collapse of Classic Maya civilization: Prin...
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Michael E. Smith
I am an archaeologist who has excavated Aztec provincial houses in Mexico to reconstruct the political economy of ancient life. I now work primarily on comparative and transdisciplinary approaches to ancient cities. Does research on early cities have anything to teach us about fundamental urban processes such as resilience, adaptation, and change? I'd like to know. I view my discipline, archaeology, as a Comparative Historical Social Science.
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