The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarlywork to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology overthe past two decades.* * Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places,and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay thatcontextualizes the history and developments in social archaeologyand related fields.* Draws together newer trends that are challenging establishedways of understanding the past.* Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated majortheoretical trends.

List of Figures.Notes on Contributors.Part I: Knowledges:.1. The "Social" in Archaeological Theory: AnHistorical and Contemporary Perspective: Ian Hodder (StandfordUniversity).2. Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory: Bruce G.Trigger (McGill University).3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought: Thomas C.Patterson (University of California, Riverside).4. Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity,Sexuality: Rosemary A. Joyce (University of California,Berkeley).5. Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A PaleolithicPerspective: Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins (Both at the Universityof Southampton).Part II: Identities:.6. Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender:Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading).7. The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-ColonialArchaeology and Anthropology: Chris Gosden (Pitt Rivers Museum,University of Oxford).8. Material Culture: Current Problems: Victor Buchli (UniversityCollege, London).9. Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeologyof Consumption: Paul R. Mullins (Indiana University-PurdueUniversity, Indianapolis).Part III: Places:.10. Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology: Emma Blake (StanfordUniversity).11. Social Archaeologies of Landscape: Wendy Ashmore (Universityof California, Riverside).12. Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology ofHousehold Production and Social Relations: Julia A. Hendon(Gettysburg College).13. Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond theBlack Atlantic: Ian Lilley (University of Queensland).Part IV: Politics:.14. The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and theProduction of Heritage in the Middle East: Reinhard.Bernbeck and Susan Pollock (Both at: State University of NewYork, Binghamton).15. Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism ToGlobalization: Gustavo Politis (CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina) andJosé Antonio Perez Gollán (CONICET-Universidad de BuenosAires, Argentina).16. Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans: RandallH. McGuire (Binghamton University).17. Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan:Koji Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan).Index