Reading The Past Current Approaches To Interpretation In Archaeology. Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology. It reviews major trends of post-processual archaeology, but it sent me and most of my friends in the archaeology course straigh to sleep.
Reading the past is Hodders first book where he explicitly descibes the new post-processual archaeology and give critics about the processual (and other) approach. Until quite recently almost everybody who thought about historiography focused on the historian's struggle Insofar as histories interpret rather than explain, there appears to be no way to escape a relativism that would qualify, if not altogether subvert, any. Diachronic, change ascribed to internal and external stimuli Indirect study of people from the past through making connections with objects - Scientific study of peoples.
Hodder suggests that archaeologists must bring a variety of perspectives to bear in the complex and uncertain tack of 'translating the meaning of past texts into their own contemporary language'.
It reviews major trends of post-processual archaeology, but it sent me and most of my friends in the archaeology course straigh to sleep.
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