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Teaching Archaeology: Lewis R. Binford in the Classroom

Edited By :- Nancy Medaris Stone , K. Paddayya

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Type: English

Pages: xxxii + 332

Format: Hard Bound

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-640-6

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 22cm x 28cm

Product Year: 2020

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Beginning in the 1960s, the influential archaeologist Lewis R. Binford challenged a field whose explanatory framework for interpreting the archaeological record was, he wrote, “by convention a simple reflection of the social identity of the creators” of that record.

He responded to that inflexible perspective by committing himself to the development of a methodology that would result in a much more robust and secure understanding of the dynamic factors that produced the static archaeological record. Over the course of a lifetime dedicated to personal learning, he did ethnographic fieldwork with hunters and gatherers in the Arctic, the Kalahari Desert, and the Australian outback, studied large-scale environmental and ecological processes, and, at the much smaller scale of the human individual, observed how such things as physical constraints on movement conditioned archaeological site structure.

In ten books and numerous scholarly articles Binford discussed the evolution of his ideas and their effect on the trajectory of his research. Two of his monographs, Nunamiut Ethnoarchaeology (1978) and Bones, Ancient Men and Modern Myths (1981) are foundational studies of research undertaken to securely link the statics of the archaeological record to the dynamic conditions that produced them. Working at Archaeology (1983) and Debating Archaeology (1989) contain numerous journal articles, written between 1968 and 1988, which became widely used by his contemporaries in their teaching and research.

The thirty-seven lectures in Teaching Archaeology comprise his course, Strategies of Archaeology, presented during the 1982 fall semester at the University of New Mexico. They reflect his numerous concerns, progressing from a discussion of the nature of the archaeological record and the intellectual tools required to decode it, to how to operationalize the archaeological record to evaluate theories. Binford balances the abstract segments of his presentations with abundant historical and contemporary examples of attempts to explain the meaning of the in-ground remnants from the past. He continued to teach and do research for more than twenty years, during which the strategies outlined in these lectures became an essential part of method and theory in contemporary archaeology. Three of his papers, previously published in India and included here as Appendices, fully complement the topics dealt with in the lectures.

Binford the Teacher – Nancy Medaris Stone

Lewis Binford: A Life Remembered – Robert K. Hitchcock

Preface – K. Paddayya

Lewis R. Binford and the India Connection – K. Paddayya

List of Illustrations

Lecture One, August 23, 1982

Lecture Two, August 25, 1982

Lecture Three, August 27, 1982

Lecture Four, August 30, 1982

Lecture Five, September 1, 1982

Lecture Six, September 3, 1982

Lecture Seven, September 8, 1982

Lecture Eight, September 10, 1982

Lecture Nine, September 13, 1982

Lecture Ten, September 17, 1982

Lecture Eleven, September 20, 1982

Lecture Twelve, September 24, 1982

Lecture Thirteen, September 27, 1982

Lecture Fourteen, September 29, 1982

Lecture Fifteen, October 4, 1982

Lecture Sixteen, October 6, 1982

Lecture Seventeen, October 8, 1982

Lecture Eighteen, October 11, 1982

Lecture Nineteen, October 13, 1982

Lecture Twenty, October 15, 1982

Lecture Twenty-One, October 18, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Two, October 20, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Three, October 22, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Four, October 25, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Five, October 27, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Six, October 29, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Seven, November 1, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Eight, November 8, 1982

Lecture Twenty-Nine, November 10, 1982

Lecture Thirty, November 12, 1982

Lecture Thirty-One, November 17, 1982

Lecture Thirty-Two, November 22, 1982

Lecture Thirty-Three, November 29, 1982

Lecture Thirty-Four, December 1, 1982

Lecture Thirty-Five, December 6, 1982

Lecture Thirty-Six, December 8, 1982

Lecture Thirty-Seven, December 10, 1982

Appendix I: The Resurgence of Historicism: Are Hunter-Gatherers Pristine?

Appendix II: On Science Bashing: A Bashful Archaeologist Speaks Out

Appendix III: Formation Processes: The Fundamental Argument for a “New Archaeology”

References

Nancy Medaris Stone is a writer and editor living in New Mexico USA. Her MA in Anthropology/ Archaeology is from the University of New Mexico. She is co-author with archaeologist Lawrence L. Loendorf of the ethno-archaeological study, Mountain Spirit, The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone, and a novel for young readers, Two Hawk Dreams.

K. Paddayya is Emeritus Professor and former Director of Deccan College (Deemed University) in Pune. He is Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and received Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2012.

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