Beschreibung:
Prehistoric archaeologists cannot observe their human subjects nor can they directly access their subjects' ideas
1: Introduction: Understanding the Material Remains of the Past; 2: Engels on the Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man: An Anticipation of Contemporary Archaeological Theory; 3: Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian; 4: Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist; 5: Archaeology at the Crossroads: What's New?; 6: Hyperrelativism, Responsibility, and the Social Sciences; 7: Archaeology and Epistemology: Dialoguing across the Darwinian Chasm; 8: The Real, the Perceived, and the Imagined; 9: Imagination and Scientific Curiosity; 10: The 1990s: North American Archaeology with a Human Face?