Contemporary archaeology in theory / edited by Robert Preucel and Ian Hodder.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part I. Prologue : Communicating Present Pasts -- Part I. Ecological Relations: Nature and Culture -- 1. Willow Smoke and Dogs' Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation / Lewis R. Binford -- 2. Understanding Changing People/Plant Relationships in the Prehispanic Andes / Christine A. Hastorf and Sissel Johnnessen -- 3. Ecological Interpretations of Palaeolithic Art / Steven J. Mithen -- Part III. Political Economy : The Production of Value -- 4. Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change / Colin Renfrew -- 5. The Ancient Economy, Transferable Technologies and the Bronze Age World-System : A View from the Northeastern Frontier of the Ancient Near East / Phillip L. Kohl -- 6. Specialization and the Production of Wealth : Hawaiian Chiefdoms and the Inka Empire / Timothy K. Earle -- 7. Beneath the Material Surface of Things : Commodities, Artifacts, and Slave Plantations / Charles E. Orser, Jr -- Part IV. Social and Cultural Evolution : Process, Structure and History -- 8. Explaining the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution / Antonio Gilman -- 9. Braudel and North American Archaeology : An Example from the Northern Plains / Philip Duke -- 10. The Power of Prestige : Competitive Generosity and the Emergence of Rank Societies in Lowland Mesoamerica / John E. Clark and Michael Blake -- 11. Cultural Transmission and Cultural Change / Stephen Shennan -- Part V. Meaning and Practice : Material Symbols -- 12. The Symbolic Divisions of Pottery : Sex-Related Attributes of English and Anglo-American Household Pots / Anne Yentsch -- 13. Cognitive Archaeology / Kent V. Flannery and Joyce Marcus -- 14. Style and the Design of a Perfume Jar from an Archaic Greek City State / Michael Shanks -- 15. The Living, the Dead and the Ancestors : Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices / John C. Barrett -- Part VI. Feminist and Gender Archaeologies : Understanding Sex and Gender -- 16. The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests : Recent Archaeological Research on Gender / Alison Wylie -- 17. Gender, Space, and Food in Prehistory / Christine A. Hastorf -- 18. What this Awl Means : Toward a Feminist Archaeology / Janet D. Spector -- 19. Dorothy Hughes Popenoe : Eve in an Archaeological Garden / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Part VII. The Past as Power : Representations and Antirepresentations -- 20. Public Presentations and Private Concerns : Archaeology in the Pages of National Geographic / Joan Gero and Delores Root -- 21. The Past as Propaganda : Totalitarian Archaeology in Nazi Germany / Bettina Arnold -- 22. Archaeological Annapolis : A Guide to Seeing and Understanding Three Centuries of Change / Mark P. Leone and Parker B. Potter, Jr -- Part VIII. Responses of the 'Other' : Constructing Identities -- 23. Alternative Archaeologies : Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist / Bruce G. Trigger -- 24. History and Prehistory in Bolivia : What about the Indians? / Carlos Mamani Condori -- 25. Inuit Perceptions of the Past / Jack Anawak -- 26. Bone Courts : the Rights and Narrative Representation of Tribal Bones / Gerald Vizenor -- Part IX. Dialogue : Theoretical Archaeological Discourse.