ABSTRACT
InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It is a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|95 pages
Issues in archaeological theory and practice: critique and development
part 2|34 pages
Perspectives for a social archaeology
part 3|106 pages
Material culture and social practices
part 4|6 pages
Conclusions