The Languages of Archaeology
Dialogue, Narrative, and Writing
Social Archaeology
1. Edition May 2002
186 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22179-1
John Wiley & Sons
This volume provides the first critical examination of the relationship between archaeology and language, analysing the rhetorical practices through which archaeologists create representations of the past.
Introduction.
1 Introducing the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.
2 Writing the Field of Archaeology: Rosemary Joyce and Robert W.
Preucel.
3 Dialogues Heard and Unheard, Seen and Unseen: Rosemary
Joyce.
4 A Second Voice: Crafting Cosmos: Jeanne Lopiparo.
5 Voices Carry Outside the Discipline: Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn
Guyer, and Michael Joyce.
6 The Return of the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.
7 Final Dialogues: Rosemary Joyce.
Bibliography.
1 Introducing the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.
2 Writing the Field of Archaeology: Rosemary Joyce and Robert W.
Preucel.
3 Dialogues Heard and Unheard, Seen and Unseen: Rosemary
Joyce.
4 A Second Voice: Crafting Cosmos: Jeanne Lopiparo.
5 Voices Carry Outside the Discipline: Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn
Guyer, and Michael Joyce.
6 The Return of the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.
7 Final Dialogues: Rosemary Joyce.
Bibliography.
"Joyce takes on archaeology's major themes, writing, and practice
in her own engaging text. She has indeed produced a telling story.
The book disentangles the enmeshed terrain of representation and
narrative, and promises to make a lasting contribution to
archaeological theory."
-Lynn Meskell, Columbia University
"This is an engaging and readable study of a profoundly
neglected topic in archaeology. The Languages of Archaeology
constitutes an open and disarmingly honest investigation of how
archaeologists write and indeed construct the past through this
process. This is a highly innovative and groundbreaking piece of
research, in which the aim of retrieving dialogue from its
marginalized position is successfully achieved."
-Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton
in her own engaging text. She has indeed produced a telling story.
The book disentangles the enmeshed terrain of representation and
narrative, and promises to make a lasting contribution to
archaeological theory."
-Lynn Meskell, Columbia University
"This is an engaging and readable study of a profoundly
neglected topic in archaeology. The Languages of Archaeology
constitutes an open and disarmingly honest investigation of how
archaeologists write and indeed construct the past through this
process. This is a highly innovative and groundbreaking piece of
research, in which the aim of retrieving dialogue from its
marginalized position is successfully achieved."
-Stephanie Moser, University of Southampton
Rosemary A. Joyce is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and former Director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. She was previously Assistant Director and Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Her publications include Gender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica (2001), Beyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies (ed. with Susan D. Gillespie, 2000), Social Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica (ed. with David C. Grove, 1999), Women in Prehistory: North American and Mesoamerica (ed. with Cheryl Claassen, 1997), Encounters with the Americas (with Susan A. M. Shumaker, 1995), Maya History by Tatiana Proskouriakoff (ed. 1993), and Cerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery (1991).