TY - GEN AB - 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 AU - Gnecco, Cristóbal. AU - Langebaek, Carl. CN - SpringerLink CN - F2229 CN - HM623 CY - New York : DA - 2013. ID - 695794 KW - Indians of South America KW - Social archaeology KW - Social structure KW - Archaeology LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8724-1 N2 - 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 PB - Springer, PP - New York : PY - 2013. SN - 9781461487241 SN - 1461487242 T1 - Against typological tyranny in archaeologya South American perspective / TI - Against typological tyranny in archaeologya South American perspective / UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8724-1 ER -