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A Marxist archaeology / Randall H. McGuire ; with a new prologue by the author.
Penn Museum Library CC75.7 .M395 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McGuire, Randall H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marxian archaeology.
- Marxian archaeology--United States.
- Hohokam culture.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Clinton Corners, N.Y. : Percheron Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Marxism is a rich intellectual tradition that offers archaeologists a way around many of the seemingly irresolvable theoretical oppositions that beset us and as such deserves a place in the theoretical and substantive debates in archaeology. This introduction to Marxist theory as it applies to archaeology explores long-term historical change and cultural evolution, and advocates a dialectical and historical approach to the study of the past. The book was originally published by Academic Press in 1992 but this affordable paperback edition features an extensive new introduction by the author.
- Contents:
- Archaeological Theories 1
- Archaeology as a Field of Study 3
- Making Theory in Archaeology 5
- Marxism 9
- The Political Nature of Marxism 10
- The Dialectic and History of Marxism 12
- One Reading of a Marxist Archaeology 14
- 2. A Brief History of Marxism 21
- Marx 23
- The Marxism of the Second International 25
- Engels 27
- Second International Marxism after Engels 28
- Comintern Marxism 30
- Marxist Scholarship in Eastern Europe 31
- Western Marxism 32
- Lukacs and Korsch 33
- Gramsci 34
- The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory 36
- Postwar Marxism 39
- The New Left 39
- Existential Marxism 41
- Structural Marxism 41
- The English Historians 43
- Marxism in a Postmodern World 44
- In the Tracks of the Second International 46
- Hegelian Marxism 48
- 3. Archaeology and Marxism 53
- Writing Histories of Archaeology 53
- Soviet Archaeology 56
- The Birth of Soviet Archaeology to 1945 56
- Soviet Archaeology after World War II (1945-1960) 59
- Soviet Archaeology since 1960 60
- Latin America 62
- The Beginnings of Archaeology in Latin America 62
- Latin American Archaeology (1945-1960) 64
- Latin American Archaeology (1960-1980) 65
- El Grupo Oaxtepec 67
- Anglo-American Archaeology 68
- Childe (1921-1945) 69
- U.S. Anthropology and Archaeology (1918-1945) 70
- Childe (1945-1957) 70
- U.S. Anthropology and Archaeology (1945-1960) 71
- Anglo-American Archaeology (1960-1980) 73
- Alternative Archaeologies in Great Britain and the United States Today 75
- Whither a Marxist Archaeology 83
- 4. The Dialectic
- Marxism as a Theory of Relations 91
- The Dialectic 93
- The Language of the Dialectic 94
- Contradiction 95
- The Laws of the Dialectic 97
- Limitations of the Dialectic 99
- The Dialectics of Material Culture 100
- Material Culture
- Passive or Active 101
- Material Culture as Objectification 102
- A Dialectical Epistemology for Archaeology 106
- Archaeology as a Social and Natural Science 108
- Realism 111
- 5. The Making of History 117
- Two Notions of Determinism 119
- Determinism in Processual Archaeology 119
- Determinism in the Dialectic 121
- Materialism 123
- The Material and the Mental 123
- Culture and Nature 126
- Ecology and Society 127
- The Dialectics of Culture and Nature 129
- Agency, Structure, and Culture 131
- Power 132
- Agency 133
- Structure 134
- Culture 138
- History as Dialectic 142
- 6. History and Evolution 145
- The Abstract and the Concrete 146
- Processual Archaeology and the Search for a General Theory 147
- The Dialectical View 148
- Cultural Evolution 150
- Cultural Evolution and History
- Two Examples 151
- Cultural Evolution as a Fact 153
- Cultural Evolution and Historical Sequences 155
- The Family and the State 157
- The Family and the Household 158
- The State 161
- History 167
- Kinds of History 168
- The Role of Abstraction in History 170
- The Historical Study of Developmental Change 173
- 7. Death and Society in a Hohokam Community 179
- Kin and Class 180
- Primitive Communism 181
- Class and Archaeology 182
- Kin and Class as Social Relations 184
- The Hohokam and the Cite of La Ciudad 187
- The Village of La Ciudad 191
- Hohokam Social Structure 193
- Ethnographic Analogy 195
- The Moreland Locus 197
- Ideology 203
- The Sedentary to Classic Period Transition 206
- The Process of Transformation 208
- 8. Critical Archaeology
- Archaeology and the Vanishing American 213
- The Present in the Past 215
- The Past as Object 215
- The Critical Dialectic of Past and Present 217
- Archaeology and Native American Pasts 218
- Who Controls the Past? 219
- Why Should Archaeologists Address the Interests of Indian People? 220
- Heritage and Nation 222
- The Vanishing American 226
- Trigger and Patterson on Indians and American Archaeology 227
- The Image of the Indian in the New Republic 228
- The Mound-Builder Myth 230
- The Indian in Victorian America 232
- The Early Twentieth Century 234
- From Termination to Self-Determination 237
- The Vanishing American in the Southwest 238
- Indian Pasts and Indian Activism 240
- 9. The Praxis of Archaeology 247
- A Summary of a Marxist Perspective 248
- The Dialectic 248
- Understanding the Lived Experience of People 249
- A Self-Reflexive Archaeology 251
- The Practice of Archaeology 252
- Making Observations of the World 253
- Communicating Archaeology 257.
- Notes:
- "This Percheron Press paperback edition ... is an unabridged republication of the edition published by Academic Press in 1992"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0971242747
- OCLC:
- 49823079
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