Against typological tyranny in archaeology [electronic resource] : a South American perspective / Cristóbal Gnecco, Carl Langebaek, editors.
2013
F2229
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Against typological tyranny in archaeology [electronic resource] : a South American perspective / Cristóbal Gnecco, Carl Langebaek, editors.
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9781461487241 electronic book
1461487242 electronic book
1461487242 electronic book
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New York : Springer, 2013.
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English
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1 online resource (249 p.) : ill.
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F2229
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980.01
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The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that give meanings to symbols) but that their tyranny can be overcome if they are used from a critical, heuristic and non-prescriptive stance: critical because the complacent attitude towards their tyranny is replaced by a militant stance against it; heuristic because they are used as mea
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