What is archaeology? : an essay on the nature of archaeological research / Paul Courbin ; translated by Paul Bahn
- Bib ID:
- 176457
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Courbin, Paul
- Uniform Title:
- Qu'est-ce que l'archéologie?. English
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1988
- xxv, 197 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226116565
- 0226116573
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Preface to the English Translation
- Translator's Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The "New Archeology"
- The Founding Fathers
- A Prehistoric and Americanist Archaeology
- Traditional Archaeology as Seen by the New Archeology
- The New Archeology Compared with the "Old"
- The Philosophical Foundations of the New Archeology
- The Theoretical and Scientific Environment of the New Archeology
- The Objective of the New Archeology
- 2. The Hypothetico-deductive Method
- The Hypo-deductive Method
- The Validation of Hypotheses
- Protracted Amazement: The Nonvalidation of Hypotheses
- Pits and Pots
- Against Braidwood
- Against Bordes
- The American Disciples
- The English
- Renfrew and the Cyclades
- Traditional Validations
- Pseudovalidations
- Validations
- 3. Laws
- Laws
- Variations
- No Laws
- Mickey Mouse Laws
- Schiffer's Laws
- Critique
- Waste Products Law
- South's Law
- 4. Theories
- Theories
- Central Theory, Middle-Range Theory
- Read's Theory: Area of Habitation and Population
- Critique
- Binford and the Nunamiut Eskimo
- Against Yellen
- Critique
- 5. The Old Archaeology and the New: A Comparison of Results
- An Epistemological Failure
- The Essential Conclusions
- Their Character
- Their Solidity
- Their Interest
- The Results of Conventional Archaeology
- The Example of Nichoria
- 6. The Spirit and the Letter
- The State of Mind
- Sects
- Days of Contempt
- The Motivations
- Form
- References and Illustration
- A Cloud of Smoke
- 7. The Conned
- The "Conned" and Followers
- Critical Faculty
- Variability
- The Motivations
- 8. An Attempt at an Assessment
- An Acknowledgment of Failure
- Logical Reasons
- Philosophical Reasons
- 9. What Is Archaeology?
- What Archaeology Alone Can Do
- The Establishment of Facts
- Facts and Approaches to Problems
- Toward an Open Approach to Problems
- Against the Manipulation of Facts
- The Difficulties of Identification
- Archaeological Demonstration
- Induction
- A Return to the Facts
- 10. The Territory of Archaeology
- New Fields and New Problems
- Excavation
- Experimental Archaeology
- Archaeometry
- The Elaboration of Data
- Description
- Classification
- Quantification
- Processing by Computer
- 11. The Frontiers of Archaeology
- Anthropology or History?
- History and Liberty
- The Distribution of Roles
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Translation of: Qu'est-ce que l'archéologie?
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 165-188.
- Translation of: Qu'est-ce que l'archeologie?
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