Annales School and Archaeology, The - Hardcover

Bintliff, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718513541 ISBN 13: 9780718513542

Publisher: Leicester University Press, 1991

Synopsis

vii + 127pp, inc many figs, cloth, jacket, 8vo Articles on the concepts of structural history as developed by the French Annales School.

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"A clear description of a troubling problem and an important contribution to debates on immigration policy."-"Kirkus",

Synopsis

Structural history, the core model of the Annales School, offers an analytical programme for structuring and hence simplifying the phenomena of the past in all their complexity. This volume is designed to explain the key concepts and approaches developed by Annaliste scholarship and to apply them to the discipline of archaeology. The importance of structural history to archaeology is shown in two ways. Firstly, the principles developed in the Annales tradition are described and placed into the context of contemporary theoretical archaeological debate. Secondly, the book goes on to show, by means of detailed case studies, how these principles are being applied in some notable Graeco-Roman and New World archaeological studies. The combinatin of sophisticated theory clearly explained, and first rate practice clearly described, should make this book useful reading for professional archaeologists.

About this edition

• Publisher: Leicester University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0718513541
• ISBN 13: 9780718513542
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1