Review of PostProcessualism Post Processualism is the postmodernist

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Review of Post-Processualism Ø Post –Processualism is the post-modernist in Archaeology ØQuestions rationality Ø

Review of Post-Processualism Ø Post –Processualism is the post-modernist in Archaeology ØQuestions rationality Ø Objectivity ØScience as an Intellectual structure science is not politically neutral

Components of Post-Processual Research Structure Ø Interpretation, not explanation Ø Interpretation as relative, contingent

Components of Post-Processual Research Structure Ø Interpretation, not explanation Ø Interpretation as relative, contingent and subjective (because objectivity is not possible) Ø giving voice to the disenfranchized Ø Multiple views/voices of the past--Ø Big ideas: ideology, gender, power, agency, ethnicity Ø How distinguish between various versions of the past? ( Evaluation is not stressed. )

CONTRIBUTIONS OF POSTPROCESSUALISM Ø Generated Considerable Debate Ø The Political Context of Archaeology Ø

CONTRIBUTIONS OF POSTPROCESSUALISM Ø Generated Considerable Debate Ø The Political Context of Archaeology Ø Broadening the Discipline in terms of Practioners Research Questions Ø The Structure of Museums Ø Archaeological Ethics

Ideas in Science and Post-Processualism What is theory? Ø Theory in Science: Ø Coherent

Ideas in Science and Post-Processualism What is theory? Ø Theory in Science: Ø Coherent intellectual structure ØTerms and relations between terms laid out ØTheory is narrowly and precisely defined Ø explanatory theory--- Addresses the question of WHY

THEORY IN POSTPROCESSUALISM Ø Theory as Ideas Ø Why do archaeology Ø social and

THEORY IN POSTPROCESSUALISM Ø Theory as Ideas Ø Why do archaeology Ø social and cultural context of archaeology Ø “All Observations are theory-laden” Ø Theory as Attitude ( Michael Shanks) Ø Philosophy: Ø Agency, Marxism, Hemenuitics