{"product_id":"the-languages-of-archaeology-isbn-9780631221791","title":"The Languages of Archaeology","description":"This volume provides the first critical examination of the relationship between archaeology and language, analysing the rhetorical practices through which archaeologists create representations of the past.  Introduction. \u003cp\u003e1 Introducing the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Writing the Field of Archaeology: Rosemary Joyce and Robert W. Preucel.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Dialogues Heard and Unheard, Seen and Unseen: Rosemary Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 A Second Voice: Crafting Cosmos: Jeanne Lopiparo.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Voices Carry Outside the Discipline: Rosemary Joyce, Carolyn Guyer, and Michael Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Return of the First Voice: Rosemary Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Final Dialogues: Rosemary Joyce.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eRosemary A. Joyce\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and former Director of the Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. She was previously Assistant Director and Assistant Curator of the Peabody Museum, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eGender and Power in Prehispanic Mesoamerica\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), \u003ci\u003eBeyond Kinship: Social and Material Reproduction in House Societies\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with Susan D. Gillespie, 2000), \u003ci\u003eSocial Patterns in Pre-Classic Mesoamerica\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with David C. Grove, 1999), \u003ci\u003eWomen in Prehistory: North American and Mesoamerica\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. with Cheryl Claassen, 1997), \u003ci\u003eEncounters with the Americas\u003c\/i\u003e (with Susan A. M. Shumaker, 1995), \u003ci\u003eMaya History \u003c\/i\u003eby Tatiana Proskouriakoff (ed. 1993), and \u003ci\u003eCerro Palenque: Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).  This volume provides the first critical examination of the relationship between archaeology and language, analysing the rhetorical practices through which archaeologists create representations of the past. Rosemary Joyce draws on literary theory to discuss the ways in which archaeologists have used language to reinforce their views of the past, and presents ideas about how language might be used in the future to present a more satisfactory understanding of time and place in the archaeological record.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eShe examines rhetoric, narrative, and dialogue as crucial topics for archaeological reflection, discusses the recent explosion of experimentation with new forms of writing within archaeology – fuelled by sources including feminism, post-structuralism, and critiques of representation from descendant groups who see archaeological sites as their cultural heritage – and demonstrates how this experimentation \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e writing might lead to a sustained critical examination \u003ci\u003eof\u003c\/i\u003e writing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author draws on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Roland Barthes to explore the nature and significance of dialogue within archaeological writing. By examining a selection of different kinds of archaeological texts, she shows how the creation of narratives is a practice that literally binds the discipline of archaeology together from the field through to formal and informal presentation of interpretations.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Joyce takes on archaeology's major themes, writing, and practice in her own engaging text. She has indeed produced a telling story. The book disentangles the enmeshed terrain of representation and narrative, and promises to make a lasting contribution to archaeological theory.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eLynn Meskell\u003c\/b\u003e, Columbia University  \u003cp\u003e\"This is an engaging and readable study of a profoundly neglected topic in archaeology. \u003ci\u003eThe Languages of Archaeology\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes an open and disarmingly honest investigation of how archaeologists write and indeed construct the past through this process. This is a highly innovative and groundbreaking piece of research, in which the aim of retrieving dialogue from its marginalized position is successfully achieved.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eStephanie Moser\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Southampton\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990274490597,"sku":"NP9780631221791","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631221791.jpg?v=1761787159","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-languages-of-archaeology-isbn-9780631221791","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}