Contradictions of archaeological theory
Subtitle: engaging critical realism and archaeological theory
By: edited by Sandra Wallace
Series: Critical realism--interventions
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780415591270; 9780203843475
Subjects: Contradiction; Philosophy; Archaeology; Critical realism
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Archaeological theory; title: Philosophy and archaeology; title: Critical realism as critique of Western philosophy; title: Critical realism as philosophical underlabourer; title: Diversity and impasse in current archaeological theorising; title: The contradictions of archaeological theory; title: The material in archaeological theory; title: Critical realism, the material, and absence; title: Time, scale, and the ontology of the material; title: Conclusions, implications, and further research