Research in archaeology has expanded beyond narrow economic and environmental concerns to respond to and incorporate aspects of the debates on identity, meaning, and politics currently being explored in fields such as social anthropology, sociology, history, and so on. Volumes in the series Archaeology, Culture, and Society focus on the application of new social and cultural theory to archaeological materials, in the process demonstrating the relevance of archaeological knowledge to related fields and to society in general. The series is closed to new submissions.
Scholars who investigate race—a label based upon real or perceived physical differences—realize that they face a formidable task. The concept has been contested and condoned, debated and denied...
Mesopotamia, the world's earliest literate culture, developed a rich philosophical conception of representation in which the world was saturated with signs. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation—both...
Material culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material...
A notion widely shared among the Japanese is that a unique culture has existed uninterrupted on the archipelago since the first human settlements more than 30,000 years ago. The idea of a continuous...
