Free Download Gavin Lucas, "Writing the Past: Knowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology"
English | ISBN: 0367001055 | 2018 | 188 pages | EPUB | 1114 KB
How do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based study, such as fieldwork. But where one was too abstract, the other has become too descriptive and commonly evades issues of epistemic judgement.
Writing the Past attempts to reintroduce a normative dimension to knowledge practices in archaeology, especially in relation to archaeological practice further down the ‘assembly line’ in the production of published texts, where archaeological knowledge becomes most stabilized and is widely disseminated. By exploring the composition of texts in archaeology and the relation between their structural, performative characteristics and key epistemic virtues, this book aims to move debate in both knowledge and writing practices in a new direction.
Read more
Buy Premium From My Links To Get Resumable Support,Max Speed & Support Me
Links are Interchangeable – Single Extraction