The Poznań School of Archaeology : the origin, growth and significance / editors Arkadiusz Marciniak, Michał Pawleta, Włodzimierz Rączkowski

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marciniak, Arkadiusz, editor.

Pawleta, Michał, editor.

Rączkowski, Włodzimierz, editor.

Series:

Outstanding contributions to archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Poland--Philosophy--History.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Poland--Methodology--History.

Physical Description:

262 pages : color illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer Nature, 2025.

Summary:

"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Poznań School of Archaeology, an original mode of archaeological thought that emerged in Poznań in the 1960s and 1970s. The book examines the significance of this original Polish archaeological thought in its broad academic context and places it in the realm of the social and intellectual framework of Europe. It is directed to the worldwide community of researchers interested in understanding the nature of the studies of the past and places this original and well-developed school of archaeological thought in its broad geographical and chronological perspective. The Poznań School of Archaeology made explicit efforts to break off ties with the culture-history paradigm and rejected the simplified functional and rigid deductive-nomological explanations. Developed in the context of non-Marxist historical materialism, over decades it transformed itself into a distinct and multifaceted archaeological research school embedded in the tradition of cultural studies, philosophy, history, and the natural sciences." -- From publisher's website.

Contents:

The Poznań School of Archaeology: an outline / Arkadiusz Marciniak, Michał Pawleta, Włodzimierz Rączkowski

Poznań School of Methodology: institutional history, research program, main achievements / Krzysztof Brzechczyn

The Poznań School of Methodology and its continuations / Jan Grad

An apologia of methodology of archaeology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań / Henryk Mamzer

Danuta Minta-Tworzowska and her role in conceptualizing the Poznań School of Archaeology and advancing the methodology of archaeology in Poland / Michał Pawleta

Did/Do early traditional peoples have a history? / Anna Pałubicka

"Archaeology is anthropology or it is nothing": but what kind of anthropology? / Andrzej P. Kowalski

Philosophical reflections on the sources of prehistoric symbolism / Jacek Woźny

Shaping archaeological awareness and the idea of socializing archeology / Violetta Julkowska

Ethnoarchaeology in Toruń and the influence of the Poznań School of Methodology / Jacek Kowalewski

Philosophy of archaeology and the Poznań School of Methodology / Ludomir R. Lozny

Late mesolithic and early neolithic hunter-gatherer cultural processes in Cis-Baikal, Eastern Siberia: a case study in darwinian evolutionary archaeology / Andrzej W. Weber

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3032078474

9783032078476

OCLC:

1535296408

Publisher Number:

90103985847