The archaeology of Bruce Trigger : theoretical empiricism / edited by Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williamson, Ronald.

Bisson, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trigger, Bruce G.

Archaeology.

Archaeologists--Canada--Biography.

Archaeologists.

Canada.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he has been an effective voice for non-oppositional forms of argument in archaeological theory. In The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger, leading scholars discuss their own approaches to the interpretation of archaeological data in relation to Trigger's fundamental intellectual contributions.

Contents:

1 The Many Influences of Bruce Trigger / Ronald F. Williamson, Jerimy J. Cunningham, Jane H. Kelley 3

2 Triggering Post-processual Archaeology and Beyond / Ian Hodder 16

3 Moderate Relativism/Political Objectivism / Alison Wylie 25

4 Comparative Archaeology: An Unheralded Cross-cultural Method / Stephen Chrisomalis 36

5 History, Theory, and Politics: Situating Trigger's Contribution to Social Archaeology / Lynn Meskell 52

6 Marx, Childe, and Trigger / Randall H. McGuire 61

7 Marxist Theories and Settlement Studies in Japanese Archaeology: Direct and Indirect Influences of V. Gordon Childe / Junko Habu, Clare Fawcett 80

8 Yes Virginia, There Is Gender: Shamanism and Archaeology's Many Histories / Silvia Tomaskova 92

9 Bruce Trigger's Impact on Ontario Iroquoian Studies / Robert Pearce, Robert MacDonald, David Smith, Peter Timmins, Gary Warrick 114

10 Bruce Trigger and the Children of Aataentsic / Martha Latta 135

11 In the Land of the Lions: The Ethnohistory of Bruce G. Trigger / Toby Morantz 142

12 The Influence of Bruce Trigger on the Forensic Reconstruction of Aboriginal History / Alexander von Gernet 174

13 The Awakening of Internalist Archaeology in the Aboriginal World / Eldon Yellowhorn 194

14 Wise Counsel: Bruce Trigger at McGill University / Michael S. Bisson 210

15 Bruce Trigger: Ambassador for Archaeology / Brian Fagan 221

16 Retrospection / Bruce G. Trigger 225

Bibliography of the Works of Bruce Trigger 259

Honours, Awards, Special Lectures 289

Graduate Student Dissertation and Thesis Titles 293.

Notes:

"Bibliography of the works of Bruce Trigger": pages [259]-288.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0773531270

0773531610

OCLC:

71541978

Publisher Number:

9780773531277

9780773531611