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Socializing geoarchaeology: insights from Bourdieu's theory of practice applied to Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete

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Jusseret, Simon [UCL]

Because the history of human life is about ways of inhabiting the world, geoarchaeology should play a central role in the archaeological program and cannot be reduced to a mere subspecialty of archaeology with its own autonomous theories and concerns. Hence there is a pressing need for theorizing; geoarchaeology cannot ignore nearly five decades of theoretical debates in archaeology. This contribution endeavors to demonstrate the benefits that may be achieved by practically applying social theories to the interpretation of geoarchaeological results. Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice inspired a generation of post-processual archaeologists, yet the avenues of interpretation that this opened up have barely been explored in approaches in the Earth sciences to the human past. It is suggested that the work of Bourdieu offers the possibility to sidestep recurrent issues of scale and incompatibilities of resolution between archaeological and geological dating. The argument is sustained by an alternative reading of geoarchaeological results coming from Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete.

Document type Communication à un colloque (Conference Paper) – Présentation orale avec comité de sélection
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2010
Language Anglais
Conference "Geoarchaeology 2009. Landscape to Laboratory and Back Again Conference", University of Sheffield, UK (du 15/04/2009 au 17/04/2009)
Journal information "Geoarchaeology : an international journal" - Vol. 25, no. 6, p. 675-708 (2010)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0883-6353
e-issn 1520-6548
Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hoboken)
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SSH/INCA - Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres
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Bibliographic reference Jusseret, Simon. Socializing geoarchaeology: insights from Bourdieu's theory of practice applied to Neolithic and Bronze Age Crete.Geoarchaeology 2009. Landscape to Laboratory and Back Again Conference (University of Sheffield, UK, du 15/04/2009 au 17/04/2009). In: Geoarchaeology : an international journal, Vol. 25, no. 6, p. 675-708 (2010)
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