ABSTRACT
What is the role of the theories available to anthropologists who are historical archaeologists? What do we do with Marxism and its century of scholarly analysis? Or with Freud and the psychoanalytical tradition? What do we do with cultural evolution and cultural ecology? Or with Levi-Strauss and structuralism? What do we do with functionalism, British and American? What to do with the Boasian tradition as understood through Geertz’s use of postmodernist critiques of science and general knowledge? And what do we do with its manifestation in archaeology where community involvement and community knowledge are unmediated by the archaeology itself ?
