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27The Interplay of Evidential Constraints and Political Interests: Recent Archaeological Research on GenderAmerican Antiquity 57 (1): 15. 1992.In the last few years, conference programs and publications have begun to appear that reflect a growing interest, among North American archaeologists, in research initiatives that focus on women and gender as subjects of investigation. One of the central questions raised by these developments has to do with their "objectivity" and that of archaeology as a whole. To the extent that they are inspired by or aligned with explicitly political (feminist) commitments, the question arises of whether the…Read more
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26Commentary on 'Toward a Critical Archaeology' by Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter, and Paul A. ShackelCurrent Anthropology 28 247-298. 1987.Critical theory is construed in very broad terms in Leone, Potter, and Shackel's discussion. It is not restricted to the "critical theory" associated with the Frankfurt school or, latterly, with Habermas. It encom-passes any research program that adopts a critically self-conscious attitude toward its constituent presuppositions: as they describe it, "critical theory asks of any set of conclusions from what point of view they are constructed." To press for such reflexiveness is crucially importan…Read more
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23Feminist theories of social power: Some implications for a processual archaeologyNorwegian Archaeological Review 25 (1): 51-68. 1992.Recent feminist analyses of power constitute a resource for theorizing power that archaeologists cannot afford to ignore given the importance of ‘post‐processual’ arguments that social relations, in which power is a central dimension, are as constitutive of system level dynamics as is the environment in which cultural systems are situated. I argue that they are important on two fronts: they articulate a dynamic, situational conception of power that resists reification, and they suggest a strateg…Read more
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21Philippa Levine. The Amateur and the Professional: Antiquarians, Historians and Archaeologists in Victorian England 1838–1886. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, ix + 210 pp., $42.50 (cloth). - Robert E. Bieder Science Encounters the Indian, 1820–1880: The Early Years of American Ethnology. Norman, Oklahoma: Oklahoma University Press, 1986, xi + 290 pp., $21.95 (cloth) (review)Philosophy of Science 57 (3): 546-. 1990.
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20Questions of Evidence, Legitimacy, and the (Dis)Unity of ScienceAmerican Antiquity 65 (2): 227. 2000.The recent Science Wars have brought into sharp focus, in a public forum, contentious questions about the authority of science and what counts as properly scientific practice that have long structured archaeological debate. As in the larger debate, localized disputes in archaeology often presuppose a conception of science as a unified enterprise defined by common goals, standards, and research programs; specific forms of inquiry are advocated (or condemned) by claiming afiliation with sciences s…Read more
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18An Analogy by Any Other Name is Just as Analogical: A Commentary on the Gould-Watson Dialogue,Anthropological Archaeology 1 382-401. 1982.
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17The Feminist Question in Science: What Does It Mean to 'Do Social Science as a Feminist"?In Sharlene Hesse-Biber (ed.), Handbook of Feminist Research, Sage Publications. pp. 567-578. 2007.
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17The Trouble With Numbers: Workplace Climate Issues in ArcheologyArcheological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 5 (1): 65-71. 1994.My aim here is to focus attention on a shift, over the last decade, in how gender inequity in understood in North American academic settings, and to draw out some implications for the analysis of the status of women in archaeology.
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16Rock, Bone, and Ruin: A Trace-centric AppreciationPhilosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology 11. 2019.I am on record as a fan of Rock, Bone, and Ruin, and I was pleased to discover that, in our paired cover blurbs, Martin Rudwick and I make essentially the same point: the great virtue of Rock, Bone, and Ruin is that Adrian Currie combines what you might describe as a jeweler’s-eye view, in his attention to the messy details of research practice in the historical sciences, with a cartographer’s breadth of vision that, as Rudwick puts it, leads him to “explore the surprising commonalities that und…Read more
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16Rethinking the Quincentennial: Consequences for past and PresentAmerican Antiquity 57 (4): 591. 1992.In organizing a plenary session to mark the Quincentennial at the 1992 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, our aim was not to provide a summary or review of archaeological research bearing on our understanding of "Columbian consequences." Rather, we sought speakers who could raise forward-looking questions about the sociopolitical entanglements and consequences of archaeology considered as, itself, part of the legacy of contact. The papers that follow, by Vine Deloria, Jalil …Read more
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16Facts of the Record and Facts of the PastInternational Studies in Philosophy 17 (1): 71-85. 1985.
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15Review: Testing Scientific Theories, John Earman (Ed.): Explaining Confirmation Practice (review)Philosophy of Science 55 (2). 1988.The contributions to Testing Scientific Theories are unified by an interest in responding to criticisms directed by Glymour against existing models of confirmation–-chiefly H-D and Bayesian schemas–-and in assessing and correcting the “bootstrap“ model of confirmation that he proposed as an alternative in Theory and Evidence. As such, they provide a representative sample of objections to Glymour's model and of the wide range of new initiatives in thinking about scientific confirmation that it ha…Read more
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14Review of M. Bunge, Finding Philosophy in Social ScienceUniversity of Toronto Quarterly 67 (1): 121-124. 1997.
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14Collaborations in Indigenous and Community-Based Archaeology: Preserving the Past TogetherAssociation for Washington Archaeology 19 15-33. 2020.This paper examines the outcomes of Preserving the Past Together, a workshop series designed to build the capacity of local heritage managers to engage in collaborative and community-based approaches to archaeology and historic preservation. Over the past two decades practitioners of these approaches have demonstrated the interpretive, methodological, and ethical value of integrating Indigenous perspectives and methods into the process and practice of heritage management and archaeology. Despite…Read more
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13The Integrity of Narratives: Epistemic Constraints on MultivocalityIn Junko Habu, Clare Fawcett & John Matsunaga (eds.), Evaluating Multiple Narratives: Beyond Nationality, Colonialist, Imperialist Archaeologies, Springer. pp. 201-212. 2008.
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13On Scepticism, Philosophy, and Archaeological ScienceCurrent Anthropology 33 (2): 209-214. 1992.
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13Facts and Fictions: Writing Archaeology in a Different VoiceCanadian Journal of Archaeology 17 5-25. 1993.
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12Matters of Fact and Matters of InterestIn Stephen Shennan (ed.), Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity, Unwin Hyman. pp. 94-109. 1989.
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12Commentary on 'Entoptic Phenomena in Upper Paleolithic Art' by J.D. Lewis-Williams and T.A. DowsonCurrent Anthropology 29 231-232. 1988.
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12The Method and Theory of V. Gordon Childe (review)International Studies in Philosophy 18 (3): 67-69. 1986.
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11Putting shakertown back together: Critical theory in archaeologyJournal of Anthropological Archaeology 4 (2): 133-147. 1985.
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10Gender Theory and the Archaeological RecordIn Margaret Wright Conkey & Joan M. Gero (eds.), Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory : Conference Entitled "Women and Production in Prehistory" : Papers, . pp. 31-54. 1991.
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10On "Heavily Decomposing Red Herrings": Scientific Methodology in Archaeology and the Ladening of Evidence with TheoryIn Lester Embree (ed.), Metaarchaeology: Reflections by Archaeologists and Philosophers, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. pp. 269-288. 1992.Internal debates over the status and aims of archaeology—between processualists and post or anti-processualists—have been so sharply adversarial, and have generated such sharply polarized positions, that they obscure much common ground. Despite strong rhetorical opposition, in practice, all employ a range of strategies for building and assessing the empirical credibility of their claims that reveals a common commitment to some form of mitigated objectivism. To articulate what this comes to, an a…Read more
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10Review: Time and Traditions by Bruce G. Trigger (review)International Studies in Philosophy 11 193-195. 1979.
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9Review of Women in Prehistory by Margaret Ehrenberg, and Women in Roman Britain by Lindsay Allason-JonesJournal of Field Archaeology 18 (4): 501-507. 1991.
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9'Invented Lands/Discovered Pasts': The Westward Expansion of Myth and HistoryHistorical Archaeology 27 (4): 1-19. 1993.
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