Table of contents for Agency in archaeology / edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb.

Contents

List of figures                                                                                                vii
List of tables                                                                                                   ix
List of contributors                                                                                          x
Preface                                                                                                          xiv
Acknowledgments                                                                                          xv
PART 1
Editors' introduction                                                                                         1
1      Agency in archaeology: paradigm or platitude?                                        3
MARCIA-ANNE DOBRES AND JOHN E. ROBB
PART 2
Thinking agency                                                                                               19
2      Agency and individuals in long-term processes                                        21
IAN HODDER
3       Troubled travels in agency and feminism                                                34
JOAN M. GERO
4       Agency in (spite of) material culture                                                        40
H. MARTIN WOBST
5       "Rationality" and contexts in agency theory                                             51
GEORGE L. COWGILL
6       A thesis on agency                                                                                    61
JOHN C. BARRETT
PART 3
Using agency                                                                                                     69
7       The founding of Monte Alban: sacred propositions and
social practices                                                                                                   71
ARTHUR A. JOYCE
8      Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality:
a critical assessment of natural and historic human agents                               92
JOHN E. CLARK
9     The tragedy of the commoners                                                                  113
TIMOTHY R. PAUKETAT
10     The depositional history of ritual and power                                          130
WILLIAM H. WALKER AND LISA J. LUCERO
11     Agents of change in hunter-gatherer technology                                    148
KENNETH E. SASSAMAN
12     Tension at funerals: social practices and the subversion of
community structure in later Hungarian prehistory                                         169
JOHN CHAPMAN
13     Constellations of knowledge: human agency and material
affordance in lithic technology                                                                         196
ANTHONY SINCLAIR
14     Self-made men and the staging of agency                                                213
MATTHEW JOHNSON
15     Craft to wage labor: agency and resistance in American
historical archaeology                                                                                         232
PAUL A. SHACKEL
PART 4
Commentary                                                                                                        247
16     On the archaeology of choice: agency studies as a research
stratagem                                                                                                             249
ELIZABETH M. BRUMFIEL
PART 5
Epilogue                                                                                                              257
17     Ethics and ontology: why agents and agency matter                                  259
HENRIETTA L. MOORE
Index                                                                                                                    264