ANTHRO 2AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Practice Theory, Processual Archaeology, Cultural Relativism
8 Dec 2016
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Ashmore and sharer 2014 chap 9: history of archaeology, postprocessual archaeology (1980-2016, seven major developments, shift away from cultural evolution; Shift away from the broad cultural evolutionary model to a study of smaller local histories: problem with cultural materialism; Began looking at ideology as the driving force behind culture change: agency in archaeology; Past people, not robots or faceless blobs; idea that archs were treating the people of the past as passive robots instead of breathing, thinking, people (cid:685)archs treated past people as genderless, faceless, blobs(cid:686) Processual arch was little concerned about the cultural means, actions, and decision making of men, women, and children in the past little focus on the agency of people. Etic and emic cultures are not mutually exclusive: etic or outsider"s perspective, behavior; Where you describe a past culture from the perspective of an outside scientific observer. Observing the behavior of people, what they are doing.
