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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williamson, R. F. (Ronald F.), Author.

Contributor:

Williamson, R. F. (Ronald F.)

Bisson, Michael S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trigger, Bruce G.

Trigger, Bruce G--Influence.

Archaeology--Canada.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology and history.

Indians of North America--Canada--Historiography.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

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:

The many influences of Bruce Trigger / Ronald F. Williamson, Jerimy J. Cunningham, and Jane H. Kelley

Triggering post-processual archaeology and beyond / Ian Hodder

Moderate relativism/political objectivism / Alison Wylie

Comparative archaeology: an unheralded cross-cultural method / Stephen Chrisomalis

History, theory, and politics: situating trigger's contribution to social archaeology / Lynn Meskell

Marx, Childe, and Trigger / Randall H. McGuire

Marxist theories and settlement studies in Japanese archaeology: direct and indirect influences of V. Gordon Childe / Junko Habu and Clare Fawcett

Yes Virginia, there is gender: shamanism and archaeology's many histories / Silvia Tomásaková

Bruce Trigger's impact on Ontario Iroquoian studies / Robert Pearce, Robert Macdonald, David Smith, Peter Timmins, and Gary Warrick

Bruce Trigger and the children of Aataentsic / Martha Latta

In the land of the lions: the ethnohistory of Bruce G. Trigger / Toby Morantz

The influence of Bruce Trigger on the forensic reconstruction of aboriginal history / Alexander von Gernet

The awakening of internalist archaeology in the aboriginal world / Eldon Yellowhorn

Wise counsel: Bruce Trigger at McGill University / Michael S. Bisson

Bruce Trigger: Ambassador for archaeology / Brian Fagan

Retrospection / Bruce G. Trigger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-8534-6

1-282-86624-9

9786612866241

0-7735-7577-4

OCLC:

923234817