Acts of discovery : an ethnography of archaeological practice / Matt Edgeworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgeworth, Matt

Series:

BAR international series ; 1131.

BAR international series ; 1131

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnoarchaeology.

ethnoarchaeology.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Archaeopress : Available from Hadrian Books, 2003.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction: Escaping from the Text

1.1. Basic Analogies or Root Metaphors

1.2. Material Remains as Material Record

1.3. From Reading to Writing the Past

1.4. The Derivation of the Record Metaphor

1.5. The Archaeological Record: a Matter of `Fact'

1.6. What the Record Metaphor Hides

1.7. Material Remains as Raw Material

1.8. From Inside to Outside Perspective

1.9. Recent Work in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

1.10. Text versus Practice in Social Anthropology

1.11. The Irony of an Ethnography of Archaeology

1.12. The Problem of Analogy

1.13.A Time for Experiment

ch. 2 The Site

2.1. Some Background Information

2.2. The Meaning of the Site

2.3. Excavation Strategy

2.4. The Setting of the Site

2.5. The Presence of the Ethnographer on Site

2.6. Methods of Recording and Analysis

ch. 3 Craft Activities and `Tools of the Trade'

3.1. Excavation as a Craft Skill.

Note continued: 3.2. Two Categories. Tools-for-Nature: Tools-for-Culture

3.3. Material Transactions: Acts of Inscription

3.4. The Primacy of Material Transactions

3.5. Locating the Act of Discovery

ch. 4 The Body and the Material Field: An Ontology of the Trowel

4.1. The Pointed Trowel

4.2. The Temporal Structure of the Material Field

4.3. Rhythms of the Body

4.4. Technique

4.5. Practical Reasoning

4.6. The Referential Structure of the Trowel-in-Use

4.7. The Trowel as Material Symbol

ch. 5 Social Transactions

5.1. Work as Socially-Mediated Activity

5.2. Co-operative Labour

5.3. The Ethnographic Interview

5.4. Visits

5.5. The Merging of Perspectives

5.6. Individual Action as Social Action

ch. 6 A Moment for Reflection

6.1. Subject-Object and Culture-Nature Relations

6.2. From the Point of View of the Archaeologist

6.3. From the Point of View of the Ethnographer

6.4. From the Point of View of the Writer.

Note continued: 6.5. From the Point of View of the Reader

ch. 7 Discovered Artefacts and the Agents of Discovery

7.1.`Finds'

7.2. The Act of Recognition

7.3. Material Context

7.4. Use-Values

7.5. Design

7.6. Practical Analogy: the Anatomy of Deep Inference

7.7. Deep Inference-in-Action

ch. 8 "Archaeological" Versus "Natural"

8.1. The `Natural'

8.2. Natural Counterparts of Discovered Artefacts

8.3. Archaeological and Natural Features

8.4. Archaeological? [₂! Natural?

8.5. Natural? [₂! Archaeological?

8.6. Global Archaeological [₄! Natural Transitions

8.7. Negative Practical Analogies

8.8.A Question of Time

8.9. Kinds of Agency

ch. 9 Giving/Taking Form: Material and Cognitive Tools in Action

9.1. Traditional Aspects of Excavation

9.2. The Historical Dimension of Craft Skills

9.3. The `Feature': Object and Concept

9.4. The Excavation of Cremations: a Photographic Essay.

Note continued: 9.5. Schemes of Past Human Action

9.6. The Resistance of the Material Field

9.7.A Cognitive Toolkit

9.8. Inferences about Past Human Cognition

9.9. Symbols of the Body

ch. 10 Acts of Inscription and the Closure of the Act of Discovery

10.1. The Act of Inscription as Boundary or Threshold

10.2. Imposition of the Textual Grid

10.3. Measuring Devices

10.4. Social Transactions and the Merging of Perspectives

10.5. The Camera

10.5.1. The Placard

10.5.2. The Scales

10.6. The Virtual Presence of the Reader on Site

ch. 11 Conclusion

11.1. The Material Culture of Material Culture

11.2. Analogies-in-Action: Analogies-of-Action

11.3. The Paradox of the Body

11.4. The Body and Time

11.5. The Limits of the Act of Discovery

11.6. Reconstituting the Subject and the Object

11.7. New Perspectives: Avenues for Further Research

11.8. The Ironic Twist.

Notes:

"Based upon a doctoral thesis that was completed and submitted to the University of Durham in 1991": p. vi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2024.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781407325316

1407325310

OCLC:

1417193728

Publisher Number:

S1131 BAR Publishing

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