Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-wq2xx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T08:28:14.680Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Post-modernism, rhetoric and scholasticism at TAG: the current state of British archaeological theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Bintliff
John Bintliff*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, 46 Saddler Street, Durham DH1 3NU
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

We reported last year on the course of TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) and its annual conferences over several years. This further report reads the meaning of the post-modernist agenda which dominated the most recent TAG conference.

Type
Notes
Information
Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 274 - 278
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Barrett, J., Bradley, R. & Green, M.. 1990. Landscape, monuments and society: the prehistory of Cran-borne Chase. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Bintliff, J.L. 1986. Archaeology at the interface: an historical perspective, in Bintliff, J.L. & Gaffney, C.F. (ed.), Archaeology at the interface: 4–31. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports. International series S300.Google Scholar
Bintliff, J.L.(ed.). 1988. Extracting meaning from the past. Oxford: Oxbow Books,Google Scholar
Bintliff, J.L.(ed.). 1991. The Annales School and archaeology. Leicester: Leicester University Press.Google Scholar
Chippindaie, C. 1990. Theoretical Archaeology Group: 11th Conference, Current Anthropology 31: 463–6.Google Scholar
Edmonds, M. 1990. Science, technology and society, Scottish Archaeological Review 7: 23–30.Google Scholar
Edmonds, M. & Thomas, J.. 1990. Science fiction: scientism and technism in archaeology, Scottish Archaeological Review 7: 1–2.Google Scholar
Fleming, A. & Johnson, M.. 1990. The Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG): origins, retrospect, prospect, Antiquity 64: 303–7.Google Scholar
Hawkes, C.F.C. 1954. Archaeological theory and method: some suggestions from the Old World, American Anthropologist 56: 155–68.Google Scholar
Hodder, I. 1986. Reading the past. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Pryor, F. 1990. The reluctant greening of archaeology, Antiquity 64: 147–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Renfrew, A.C. 1982. Towards an archaeology of mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Thomas, J. 1990. Silent running: the ills of environmental archaeology, Scottish Archaeological Review 7: 2–7.Google Scholar
Wilk, R.R. 1985. The ancient Maya and the political present, Journal of Anthropological Research 41: 307–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar