Agency Uncovered
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Agent Based Modeling
Ancient Greece
archaeological
archaeological agency theory debate
Artificial Societies
Attic Red Figure Pelike
Bill Sillar
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Classical Ai
Contemporary Ai
Cryptocrystalline Quartz
cultural transmission models
Data Sets
Early 5th Century Ad
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ethical issues in archaeology
evolutionary anthropology
foraging
Highest Resolution Spatial Data Sets
Homo Sapiens Sapiens
hunter-gatherer societies
Levallois Reduction
material culture studies
Middle Palaeolithic
Middle Palaeolithic Technology
Mountain Deities
Multi-agent Simulation
Multiagent Simulation
Non-discursive Knowledge
optimal
Optimal Foraging Theory
Pope Paul III
prehistoric
record
shennan
social
Social Agency Theory
Social Reproduction
stephen
structuration theory
technology
theory
Torsten Hagerstrand
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781138404335
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Jul 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book questions the value of the concept of 'agency', a term used in sociological and philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has been argued that previous generations of archaeologists, in explaining social change in terms of structural or environmental conditions, have lost sight of the 'real people' and reduced them to passive cultural pawns, on the other, introducing the concept of agency to counteract this can be said to perpetuate a modern, Western view of the autonomous individual who is free from social constraints. This book discusses the balance between these two opposites, using a range of archaeological and historical case studies, including European and Asian prehistory, classical Greece and Rome, the Inka and other Andean cultures. While focusing on the relevance of 'agency' theory to archaeological interpretation and using it to create more diverse and open-ended accounts of ancient cultures, the authors also address the contemporary political and ethical implications of what is essentially a debate about the definition of human nature.
