Re-constructing Archaeology (New Studies in Archaeology)

Re-constructing Archaeology (New Studies in Archaeology) by Christopher Tilley. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415088701.

InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It is a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.