Writing the Past

Name: Writing the Past
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Writing the PastKnowledge and Literary Production in Archaeology\nAuthor(s): Gavin Lucas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367001049, 978-0367001049\nSynopsis\nHow do archaeologists make knowledge? Debates in the latter half of the twentieth century revolved around broad, abstract philosophies and theories such as positivism and hermeneutics which have all but vanished today. By contrast, in recent years there has been a great deal of attention given to more concrete, practice-based study, such as fieldwork. But where one was too abstract, the other has become too descriptive and commonly evades issues of epistemic judgement.\n\nWriting the Past attempts to reintroduce a normative dimension to knowledge practices in archaeology, especially in relation to archaeological practice further down the assembly line in the production of published texts, where archaeological knowledge becomes most stabilized and is widely .