@article{695794,
      recid = {695794},
      author = {Gnecco, Cristóbal. and Langebaek, Carl.},
      title = {Against typological tyranny in archaeology a South  American perspective / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {1 online resource (249 p.) :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {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},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/695794},
}