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Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Archaeology, Annales, and Ethnohistory
Authors and Contributors      Edited by A. Bernard Knapp
SeriesNew Directions in Archaeology
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:172
Dimensions(mm): Height 246,Width 189
ISBN/Barcode 9780521102605
ClassificationsDewey:930.1
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 12 March 2009
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This collection considers the relevance of the Annales 'school' for archaeology. The Annales movement regarded orthodox history as too much concerned with events, too narrowly political, too narrative in form and too isolated from neighbouring disciplines. Annalistes attempted to construct a 'total' history, dealing with a wide range of human activity, and combining divergent material, documentary, and theoretical approaches to the past. Annales-oriented research utilizes the techniques and tools of various ancillary fields, and integrates temporal, spatial, material and behavioural analyses. Such an approach is obviously attractive to archaeologists, for even though they deal with material data rather than social facts, they are just as much as historians interested in understanding social, economic and political factors such as power and dominance, conflict, exchange and other human activities. Three introductory essays consider the relationship between Annales methodology and current archaeological theory. Case studies draw upon methodological variations of the multifaceted Annales approach. The volume concludes with two overviews, one historical and the other archaeological.