Marxist Perspectives in Archaeology.

Abstract

Part I. Introduction: 1. Another way of telling: Marxist perspectives in archaeology Matthew Spriggs Part II. Situating the Economic: 2. The economy and kinship: a critical examination of some of the ideas of Marx and Levi-Strauss C. A. Gregory 3. The motion of craft specialization and its presentation in the archaeological record of early states in the Turanian Basin Maurizio Tosi 4. Towards the quantification of productive forces in archaeology Luis F. Bate Part III. Representation and Ideology: 5. Social change, ideology and the archaeological record Michael Parker Pearson 6. Ideology and material culture: an archaeological perspective Kristian Kristiansen 7. The spirit and its burden: archaeology and symbolic activity Susan Kus 8. Objectivity and subjectivity Mike Rowlands Part IV. Social Transformations: 9. Explaining the Upper Palaeolithic Revolution Antonio Gilman 10. Force, history and the evolutionist paradigm Phil Kohl 11. The transformation of Asiatic formations: the case of late Prehispanic Mesoamerica John Gledhill Part V. Epilogue 12. A consideration of ideology Peter Gathercole Index.