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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 August 2009
      25 August 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511521195
      9780521612005
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521195
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      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 224 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Archaeological Theory and Methods, Sociology: General Interest, Archaeology, Sociology
      Series:
      New Studies in Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Archaeological Theory and Methods, Sociology: General Interest, Archaeology, Sociology
    Series:
    New Studies in Archaeology
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    Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological data, and a reliable connection between them. A major goal of this book is to improve our understanding of one aspect of social archaeology, the inference of status hierarchy. The first section covers what is involved in social inference, and presents ideas on how it may be done reliably. In the following section, the typological models of Elman Service and Morton Fried are used to clarify certain aspects of ranking. The final section draws together a number of insights concerning the recognition of status inequality. These approaches are given systematic arrangement and evaluated in light of the model of social inference. This arrangement clarifies how they relate to each other, making it easier to see how they may be applied in varied real contexts, and stimulates new ideas for more correlations of ranking.

    Reviews

    ‘The book explains the various models of social theory used by archaeologists and provides a coherent review of their respective value in generating inferences from the archaeological record … an important contribution to the field.’

    Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

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