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010 _a 20170CAMPUS2
020 _a9781107046535 (hardback)
020 _a9781107665484 (paperback)
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100 1 _aBuccellati, Giorgio,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _a Critique of Archaeological Reason :
_bStructural, Digital and Philosophical Aspects of the Excavated Record /
_cGiorgio Buccellati.
300 _axviii, 392 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 358-375) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction -- Part One. Fundamentals -- Archaeology and grammar -- Categorization -- The search for objectivity -- Part Two. Analysis -- Stratigraphic analysis -- Typological analysis -- Integrative analysis -- Part Three. The Reassembled Construct -- The invention of a site -- The physical record -- The referential record -- Part Four. The Privileged Venue -- Digital thought -- Digital text -- The archaeological record -- Part Five. The Wider Frame -- The relevance of structure -- The critical approach -- Hermeneutics -- Conclusion.
520 2 _a"The inquiry into the nature of archaeology and its theoretical presuppositions leads to unexpected results. The question about its nature is a question about distinctiveness: what is unique about the discipline that sets it apart from the others? The question about theoretical presuppositions relates to the conditions that make this distinctiveness possible: what is the frame of reference within which such uniqueness can best be understood? Unexpected results emerge when one sees archaeological reason emerge as an independent dimension of human reason and become a mode of thought. As such, it affects the way in which we view reality, so that the theoretical presuppositions loom even larger, and require a correspondingly fuller elaboration"--
650 0 _aArchaeology.
650 0 _aReason.
650 0 _aArchaeology
_xMethodology.
650 0 _aArchaeology
_xPhilosophy.
650 0 _aDigital media.
650 0 _aExcavations (Archaeology)
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