Syllabus

Lecture 1: The Development of Archaeological Theory

(no reading)

Lecture 2: Archaeology and the Postmodern Term

Hodder, I. 1984: Archaeology in 1984, Antiquity 58: 25 - 32.
Hodder, I. 1991: Reading the Past. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Hodder, I. 1998: The Archaeological Process: An Introduction, Oxford, Blackwell.
Hodder, I., et al., Eds. 1995: Interpreting Archaeology: Finding Meaning in the Past, London, Routledge.
Shanks, M. and C. Tilley. 1987a: Social Theory and Archaeology. Cambridge, Polity Press.
Shanks, M. and C. Tilley. 1987b: Re-constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice. London, Routledge.

Lecture 3: Structural Visions

Bourdieu, P. 1977: Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Bourdieu, P. 1998: Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Cambridge, Polity.
Douglas, M. 1966: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London, Routledge.
Hodder, I. 1990: The Domestication of Europe. Oxford, Blackwell.
Hodder, I. 1992: Theory and Practice In Archaeology, London, Routledge.
Tilley, C. Ed. 1990: Reading Material Culture, Oxford, Blackwell.

Lecture 4: Post-structuralisms

Gosden, C. 1992: Endemic doubt: is what we write right?, Antiquity 66: 803 - 808.
Meskell, L. M. 1999: Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class etc. in Ancient Egypt. Oxford, Blackwell.
Miller, D., M. Rowlands and C. Tilley, Eds. 1989: Domination and Resistance, London, Allen and Unwin.
Thomas, J. 1996: Time, Culture and Identity. London, Routledge.
Tilley, C. Ed. 1990: Reading Material Culture, Oxford, Blackwell.

Lecture 5: Power

Foucault, M. 1977: Discipline and Punish. The Birth of the Prison. London, Penguin.
Foucault, M. 1978: The History of Sexuality. London, Routledge.
Foucault, M. 1988: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings 1977-1984. London, Routledge.
Foucault, M. 1989a: The Birth of Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. London, Routledge.
Foucault, M. 1989b: Madness and Civilization: A History in the Age of Reason. London, Routledge.
Miller, D. and C. Tilley, Eds. 1984: Ideology, Power and Prehistory, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Tilley, C. 1990: Foucault: towards an archaeology of archaeology. In Reading Material Culture, C. Tilley (Ed.). London, Basil Blackwell, pp. 281 - 347.

Lecture 6: Gendered Voices

Brumfiel, E. M. 1992: Distinguished lecture in archaeology: breaking and entering the ecosystem Ñ gender, class, and faction steal the show, American Anthropologist 94: 551 - 567.
Collier, J. F. and S. J. Yanagisako, Eds. 1987: Gender and Kinship: Essays Toward a Unified Analysis, Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Conkey, M. W. and J. M. Gero. 1997: Programme to practice: gender and feminism in archaeology, Annual Review of Anthropology 26: 411 - 437.
Gero, J. M. and M. W. Conkey, Eds. 1991: Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory, Oxford, Blackwell.
Moore, J. and E. Scott, Eds. 1997: Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology, London, Leicester University Press.
Morris, R. C. 1995: All made up: Performance theory and the new anthropology of sex and gender, Annual Review of Anthropology 24: 567-592.
Wright, R. A., Ed. 1996: Gender and Archaeology, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.

Lecture 7: Feminisms

Butler, J. 1993: Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex". New York, Routledge.
Claassen, C. and R. A. Joyce, Eds. 1997: Women in Prehistory: North America and
Mesoamerica, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press.
Gilchrist, R. 1991: Women's archaeology? Political feminism, gender theory and historical revision, Antiquity 65: 495 - 501.
Joyce, R. A. and C. Claassen. 1997: Women in the ancient Americas. In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, C. Claassen and R. A. Joyce (Ed.). Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, pp. 1 - 14.
Hekman, S. J. 1990: Gender and Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism. Cambridge, Polity Press.
Hill, E. 1998: Gender-informed archaeology: the priority of definition, the use of analogy, and the multivariate approach, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 5(1): 99 - 128.
Lancaster, R. N. and M. di Leonardo, Eds. 1997: The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy, New York, Routledge.
Moore, H. L. 1988: Feminism and Anthropology. Cambridge, Polity Press.
Moore, H. L. 1994: A Passion for Difference. Cambridge, Polity Press.

Lecture 8: Other Voices

Spector, J. D. 1994: What this Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village. St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Stiebing Jnr, W. H. 1987: The nature and dangers of cult archaeology. In Cult Archaeology and Creationism. Understanding Pseudo-scientific Beliefs About the Past, B. F, Harrold and R. A. Eve (Ed.). Iowa City, Iowa University Press, pp. 1 - 10.
WEB SITES
http://www.unm.edu/~rleonard/230.htm
http://mothermillennia.org/Carolyn/Sister_Stories_excerpt.html
http://www.webarchaeology.com/html/

Lecture 9: Alternative Visions: The Goddess

Meskell, L. M. 1995: Goddesses, Gimbutas and New Age archaeology, Antiquity 69: 74 - 86.
Meskell, L. M. 1998: Oh my Goddess: ecofeminism, sexuality and archaeology, Archaeological Dialogues.
Meskell, L. M. 1998: Twin peaks: the archaeologies of ‚atalhšyŸk. In Ancient Goddesses: The Myths and Evidence, C. Morris and L. Goodison (Ed.). London, British Museum Press, pp. 46 - 62.
Talalay, L. E. 1994: A feminist boomerang: the great goddess of Greek prehistory, Gender and History 6: 165-183.
WEB SITES:
http://www.webcom.com/gimbutas/
http://catal.arch.cam.ac.uk/catal/catal.html

Lecture 10: Archaeology on the Web

Meskell, L. M. 1997: Electronic Egypt: the shape of archaeological knowledge on the net, Antiquity 71: 1073 - 6.
Taylor, M. C. and E. Saarinen. 1994: Imagologies. London and New York, Routledge.
Turkle, S. 1996: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
WEB SITE
http://guardians.net/egypt/new.htm
http://www.webarchaeology.com/html/
http://catal.arch.cam.ac.uk/catal/catal.html

Lecture 11: Political Archaeology

Chapman, J. 1994: Destruction of a common heritage: the archaeology of war in Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Antiquity 68(258): 120 - 126.
D’az-Andreu. 1996: Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe. London, University College London Press.
Graves-Brown, P., S. Jones and C. Gamble, Eds. 1996: Cultural Identity and Archaeology: The Construction of European Communities, London, Routledge.
Kohl, P. L. and C. Fawcett, Eds. 1995: Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Meskell, L. M. Ed. 1998, Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. London, Routledge.
Trigger, B. G. 1995: Romanticism, nationalism, and archaeology. In Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology, P. L. Kohl and C. Fawcett (Ed.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp. 263-279.

Lecture 12: Globalism/Postcolonialism

Anderson, B. 1983: Imagined Communities. London, Verso. Bahrani, Z. 1996: The Hellenization of Ishtar: nudity, fetishism, and the production of cultural differentiation in ancient art, The Oxford Art Journal 19(2): 3 - 16.
Featherstone, M., Ed. 1990: Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity, London, Sage.
Featherstone, M., S. Lash and R. Robertson, Eds. 1995: Global Modernities, London, Sage.
Friedman, J. 1994: Cultural Identity and Global Process. London, Sage.
Hodder, I. 1998: The Archaeological Process: An Introduction, Oxford, Blackwell.
Jacobs, J. M. 1996: Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City. London, Routledge.
Meskell, L. M. 1998, Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. London, Routledge.
Turner, B. S. 1994: Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism. London, Routledge.

Lecture 13: Archaeological Theory: Scales of Representation

(summary and discussion session)