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ARCHY 469 – Theory in

Lecture: TTh 1:30 – 3:20pm, SMI 307

Instructor: Debora C. Trein Instructor’s office: DEN 133 Office Hours: F 11:30 – 1:30pm, or by appointment Email: [email protected]

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Course Description: How do we go from artifacts to statements about the lives of people in the ? How much of the past can we truly know, when most of the pertinent evidence has long since degraded, and when the people we aim to study are long dead? This course provides a broad of the major theoretical trends that have shaped anthropological archaeology over time. We will outline and examine some of the major publications, debates, and shifts in archaeological thought that have influenced the diverse ways in which we claim to know what we know about the past. In this course, we will explore the notion that the various intellectual approaches we employ to make statements about the past are influenced by the different perspectives we have of the relationship between the past and the present, the kinds of meaning we believe can be derived from the , the questions we seek to answer, and the methods we use to retrieve (and prioritize) information. This course will start with a broad overview of the major periods of theoretical development in archaeology from the 1800s to the present, followed by discussions of how archaeologists tackle common archaeological questions through diverse theoretical lenses (and why sometimes they don’t tackle these questions at all). While the politics of archaeological practice will be

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touched upon throughout the course, we will devote the last quarter of the course to the repercussions of archaeological practice to present-day communities and stakeholders. This course is designed to provide students with sufficient background knowledge of archaeological theories to think about their own interests in archaeology, and prepare them for other advanced classes in anthropology and further into graduate studies. Student-led discussions will be an integral part of the learning process in this course. Thus, students will be expected to give careful consideration to the assigned readings in preparation for discussions.

Readings: Class textbook: There are no class textbooks for this course, as readings for this course will either be available online through UW’s library system, or as scanned PDFs posted on Canvas. Readings are either designated as ♦REQUIRED♦ or SUGGESTED. ♦REQUIRED♦ readings will be discussed in class, and reading these is essential in order to achieve participation points (more below). SUGGESTED readings are posted for students interested in furthering their learning on a particular topic, or to aid in the completion of the position paper. This course will draw heavily from chapters in:

- Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 : An Introduction. New York Blackwell. - Praetzellis, Adrian 2011 Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.

Both books are available to read digitally through UW’s library system. Students interested in continuing their studies in archaeology are also encouraged to seek out:

- Trigger, Bruce G. 2006 A of Archaeological Thought, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. - Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hutson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Readings not available online will be posted on Canvas for each week approximately one week in advance.

Course Requirement: ARCHY 205 is a requirement. This course will count as one of the three core requirement classes for the Archaeology Sciences Option. Students in that program are strongly encouraged to register for the class, which will give you the best overview of the main intellectual frameworks in archaeological thought over the past 50 years.

Course Evaluation and Grading: Successful completion of this course will require students to attend lectures, read the assigned readings, participate in class discussion, lead discussion sections, and complete a position paper. Evaluations for this course will be undertaken in three ways: preparing and leading class discussions, submitting questions for class discussion, and a position paper. Grades for all assignments and exams will be posted on Canvas.

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Class Discussion: Students are required to co-lead three (3) class discussions, which entails preparing and distributing a 1-page handout to the class (which includes a synopsis of the reading, and 2-3 questions/topics for discussion), and presenting on assigned readings. You may use media such as PowerPoint if it aids your presentation. Discussions are graded out of ten (10) points (five (5) points for the presentation/discussion and five (5) points for the handout). THERE ARE NO MAKE UP CLASS DISCUSSIONS. If special circumstances require absence from lab sessions, proper documentation MUST be provided before or immediately after (1-2 days) class.

Class Discussion Participation: Up to one week before student-led discussion sessions, students will be asked to submit a question based on the upcoming week’s readings. Those who participate with thoughtful, insightful comments and help move the discussion along will be provided two (2) points. There are a total twenty-four (24) points available to students for participating in class discussion. Four (4) of these points represent extra credit, which can be added to the final grade in case the student falls short on other assignments. THERE IS NO MAKE UP DISCUSSION PARTICIPATION. If special circumstances disable a student from participating in class, proper documentation MUST be provided before or immediately after (1-2 days) the deadline.

Position Paper: Students are required to write a position paper, which involves critically thinking about a question, building an appropriate bibliography, and constructing an argument that clearly delineates a position based on research on a topic. The project is to be written as a 10-page, double space, 12-font paper. This is to be done individually. The position paper may be written on a topic of the student’s choosing (with prior instructor authorization), or selected from prepared prompts at the end of the syllabus. The position paper is due at the beginning of the last class. A draft of the position paper is due at the beginning of the Thursday class of the 7th week. The draft will not be graded, but is designed to give students constructive comments to refine the student’s writing. The submission of a draft is not mandatory, but is strongly suggested. Drafts will not be accepted after the beginning of the Thursday class of the 7th week. THERE IS NO MAKE UP POSITION PAPER. If special circumstances disable a student from handing in the project on time, proper documentation MUST be provided before or immediately after (1-2 days) the deadline.

Grading: The break-down of grading is as follows: • Three (3) class presentation and discussion assignments, each worth ten (10) points, totaling 30 points (or 30% of the final grade); • Twelve (12) class discussion participation opportunities, each worth two (2) points, totaling twenty-four (24) available points (or up to 24% of the final grade, depending on final grade); • One position paper, worth fifty (50) points (50% of the final grade).

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Final grades will be scored from a total of 100 points. Conversion of the percentage points to the UW grading scale area as follows:

Percentage UW Percentage UW Percentage UW Percentage UW Percentage UW Points Grading Points Grading Points Grading Points Grading Points Grading Scale Scale Scale Scale Scale ≥ 95% 4.0 88% 3.3 81% 2.6 74% 1.9 67% 1.2 94% 3.9 87% 3.2 80% 2.5 73% 1.8 66% 1.1 93% 3.8 86% 3.1 79% 2.4 72% 1.7 65% 1.0 92% 3.7 85% 3.0 78% 2.3 71% 1.6 64% 0.9 91% 3.6 84% 2.9 77% 2.2 70% 1.5 63% 0.8 90% 3.5 83% 2.8 76% 2.1 69% 1.4 62% 0.7 89% 3.4 82% 2.7 75% 2.0 68% 1.3 <.7 0

Course Schedule (Subject to Change): Week 1 (09/28) Thursday – Introduction to class. Introduction to theory. Readings: - Praetzellis, Adrian 2011 Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. Chapter 1, 2, and 3 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Trigger, Bruce G. 2006 A History of Archaeological Thought, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Chapter 1. SUGGESTED

Week 2 (10/03 and 10/05) Tuesday – Early history of archaeological thinking Readings: - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Preface and Chapter 1 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Thompson, Edward H. 1887 Archaeological Research in the Yucatán. Proceedings of the American Society 4(3): 161-170 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Trigger, Bruce G. 2006 A History of Archaeological Thought, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Chapter 3. SUGGESTED

Thursday – History Readings: - Gladwin, Harold S. 1937 Independent Invention Versus Diffusion. American Antiquity 3 (2):156-160 ♦REQUIRED♦ - McKern, W. C. 1937 An Hypothesis for the Asiatic Origin of the Woodland Culture Patterns. American Antiquity 3(2): 138-143 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Childe, V. Gordon 1950 The Urban . Town Planning Review 21(1): 3-17 SUGGESTED - Fewkes, Vladimir J. 1937 Aboriginal Potsherds from Red River, Manitoba. American Antiquity 3(2):143-155 SUGGESTED - Lyman, R. Lee, and Michael J. O’Brien 2004 A History of Normative Theory in Americanist Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11(4): 369-396 SUGGESTED

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- Trigger, Bruce G. 2006 A History of Archaeological Thought, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Chapter 6. SUGGESTED - Webster, G. S. 2008 Culture History: A Culture-Historical Approach. In Handbook of Archaeological Theories, edited by R. A. Bentley, H. D. G. Maschner and C. Chippindale, pp. 11-27. AltaMira Press, Lanham SUGGESTED. - Willey, Gordon R. 1945 Horizon Styles and Pottery Traditions in Peruvian Archaeology. American Antiquity 11:49-56 SUGGESTED - Willey, Gordon, R., and Phillip Phillips 1958 Method and Theory in American Archaeology, pp. 1-57. Alabama University Press, Tuscaloosa SUGGESTED

Week 3 (10/10 and 10/12) Tuesday – Critique of Culture History; New Archaeology overview Readings: - Binford, Lewis R. 1965 Archaeological Systematics and the Study of Culture Process. American Antiquity 31(2): 203-210 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 2 and 3 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Praetzellis, Adrian 2011 Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. Chapter 4 and 5 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Binford, Lewis R. 1962 Archaeology as Anthropology. American Antiquity 28(2): 217- 225 SUGGESTED - Steward, Julian H., and Frank M. Seltzer 1938 Function and Configuration in Archaeology. American Antiquity 4(1): 4-10 SUGGESTED - Taylor, Walter W. 1948 A Study of Archaeology. SUGGESTED - Trigger, Bruce G. 2006 A History of Archaeological Thought, 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Chapter 7. SUGGESTED

Thursday – Schiffer (formation processes) and Binford (middle range theory) SLD Readings: - Binford, Lewis R. 1981 Behavioral Archaeology and the “Pompeii Premise”. Journal of Anthropological Research 37(3): 195-208 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 4 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Schiffer, Michael B. 1985 Is There a “Pompeii Premise” in Archaeology? Journal of Anthropological Research 41(1): 18-41 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Binford, Lewis R. 1967 Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking: The Use of Analogy in Archaeological Reasoning. American Antiquity 32(1): 1-12 SUGGESTED - Binford, Lewis R. 1978 Dimensional Analysis of Behavior and Site Structure: Learning from an Eskimo Hunting Stand. American Antiquity 43(3): 330-361 SUGGESTED - Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hutson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, Third Edition, Chapter 2. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge SUGGESTED - Kelly, Robert L. 2011 Why Did Binford’s Middle-Range Program Outcompete Schiffer’s Formation Process Program? Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 18(4): 284- 290 SUGGESTED

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- Schiffer, Michael B. 1972 Archaeological Context and Systemic Context. American Antiquity 37(2): 156-165 SUGGESTED

Week 4 (10/17 and 10/19) Tuesday – Processualism: Systems Theory, Behavioral Archaeology, Cultural Evolution SLD Readings: - Binford, Lewis R. 1965 Archaeological Systematics and the Study of Culture Process. American Antiquity 31(2):203-210 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 5, 9 and 10 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Praetzellis, Adrian 2011 Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. Chapter 6 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Steward, Julian H. 1955 Theory of Culture Change: Methodology for Multilinear Evolution, Introduction and Chapter 1. University of Illinois Press, Champaign ♦REQUIRED♦ - Binford, Lewis R. 1962 Archaeology as Anthropology. American Antiquity 28(2):217- 225 SUGGESTED - Clark, Grahame 1953 The Economic Approach to : Albert Reckitt archaeological lecture, 1953. Proceedings of the British Academy 39:62-77 SUGGESTED - Donnell, Robert C. 1980 Evolutionary Approaches and Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 3:35-99 SUGGESTED - Doran, James 1970 Systems Theory, Computer Simulation, and Archaeology. World Archaeology 1(3):289-298 SUGGESTED - Flannery, Kent V. 1972 The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 3:399-426 SUGGESTED - Flannery, Kent V. 1973 The Origins of Agriculture. Annual Review of Anthropology 2:271-310 SUGGESTED - Flannery, Kent V. 1976 The Early Mesoamerican Village. Chapter 6, pp 161-180. Academic Press, New York SUGGESTED - Hall, Thomas D. and Christopher Chase-Dunn 1993 The World-Systems Perspective and Archaeology: Forward into the Past. Journal of Anthropological Research 1(2):121-143 SUGGESTED - Shennan, Stephen 2002 Genes, Memes, and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution, Chapter 1. Thames and Hudson, London. SUGGESTED - Spencer, Charles S. 1997 Evolutionary Approaches in Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 5(3):209-264 SUGGESTED

Thursday – Critique of , Post-Processualism Overview Readings: - Hodder, Ian 1985 Postprocessual Archaeology. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 8:1-26 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 6 and 7 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Praetzellis, Adrian 2011 Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. Chapter 7 and 8 ♦REQUIRED♦

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- Earle, Timothy K., Preucel, Robert W., Brumfiel, Elizabeth M., Carr, Christopher, Limp, W. Frederick, Keegan, William F., Knapp, A. Bernard, Potter, Parker B., Jr., Rolland, Nicolas, Rowlett, Ralph, M., Trigger, Bruce G., Zeitlin, Robert N. 1987 Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology 28(4):501-538 SUGGESTED - Hassan, Fekri 1997 Beyond the Surface. Comments on Hodder’s “Reflexive Excavation Methodology” Antiquity 71:1020-1025 SUGGESTED - Hodder, Ian 1996 Always Momentary, Fluid and Flexible: Towards a Reflexive Excavation Methodology. Antiquity 71:691-700 SUGGESTED - Hodder, Ian 1998 Whose Rationality? A Response to Fekri Hassan. Antiquity 72(275):213-217 SUGGESTED - Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hutson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, Third Edition, Chapter 9. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge SUGGESTED - Kohl, Philip L. 1985 Symbolic : A New Loss of Innocence. Dialectical Anthropology 9(1/4):105-117 SUGGESTED - Pope, Rachel 2011 Processual Archaeology and Politics: The Loss of Innocence. Archaeological Dialogues 18(1):59-86 SUGGESTED - Wylie, Alison 1985 The Reaction against Analogy. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 8:63-111 SUGGESTED

Week 5 (10/24 and 10/26) Tuesday –Postprocessualisms: Agency and Practice, Hermeneutics, Critical Theory SLD Readings: - Joyce, Rosemary A. 2008 Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives, Chapter 1. Thames and Hudson, New York. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Praetzellis, Adrian 2011 Death by Theory: A Tale of Mystery and Archaeological Theory. Altamira Press, Walnut Creek. Chapter 9 and 10 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Deetz, James 1996 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life, expanded and revised edition. Anchor, New York. - Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hutson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, Third Edition, Chapter 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge SUGGESTED - Meskell, Lynn 1999 Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Gender, Etc Ancient Egypt. Wiley Blackwell, New York SUGGESTED - More readings TBD

Thursday – Archaeological Theory Around the World Readings: - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 11 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Funari, Pedro Paulo 1995 Mixed Features of Archaeological Theory in Brazil. In Theory in Archaeology: A World Perspective, edited by Peter J. Ucko, pp. 236-250. Routledge, New York. ♦REQUIRED♦ - More readings TBD

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Week 6 (10/31 and 11/02) Tuesday – CRM and (versus?) Academia Readings: - Elston, Robert G. 1992 Archaeological Research in the Context of Cultural Resource Management: Pushing Back the 1990s. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 14(1):37-48. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Berggren, Asa, and 2003 Social Practice, Method, and Some Problems in Field Archaeology. American Antiquity: 68(3):412-434 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Barile, Kerri S. 2004 Race, the National Register, and Cultural Resource Management: Creating a Historic Context for Postbellum Sites. 38(1):90-100. - Cunningham, Jerimy J. 2000 Chasing Demons: Reconciling Academic and CRM Archaeology. Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal Canadien d'Archéologie 24(2):172-176 - Downum, Christian E. and Laurie J. Price 1999 Applied Archaeology. Human Organization 58(3):226-239. SUGGESTED - Fowler, Don D. 1982 Cultural Resources Management. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 5:1-50 SUGGESTED - Hardesty, Donald L. 2000 Speaking in Tongues: The Multiple Voices of Fieldwork in . The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology 26(2):43- 47. SUGGESTED - Holt, H. Barry 1983 A Cultural Resource Management Dilemma: Anasazi Ruins and the Navajos. American Antiquity 48(3):594-599. SUGGESTED - Pitblado, Bonnie L. 2014 An Argument for Ethical, Proactive, Archaeologist- Collector Collaboration. American Antiquity 79(3):385-400. SUGGESTED - Praetzellis, Mary, and Adrian Praetzellis 2011 Cultural Resources Management and Heritage Values. Historical Archaeology 45(1):86-100 SUGGESTED - Renfrew, A. Colin 1983 Divided We Stand: Aspects of Archaeology and Information. American Antiquity 48(1):3-16 SUGGESTED

Thursday – CASE STUDIES: Actions, Intentions, and the Individual SLD Readings: - Dobres, Marcia-Anne, and John E. Robb 2000 Agency in Archaeology: Paradigm or Platitude? In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb, pp. 3-18. Routledge, New York. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Russell, Lynette, Bruno David, Peter Hiscock, and Christopher Tilley 2004 Can Archaeology Recover Past Intentions? Cambridge Archaeological Journal 14(1):63-80 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew 2000 Self-Made Men and the Staging of Agency. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb, pp. 213-230. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Hutson, Scott R. 2002 Built Space and Bad Subjects: Domination and Resistance at Monte Alban, Mexico. Journal of Social Archaeology 2(1):53-80 - Joyce, Rosemary A., and Jeanne Lopiparo 2005 Postscript: Doing Agency in Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12(4):365-374 SUGGESTED

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- Russell, Lynette, Bruno David, Peter Hiscock, and Christopher Tilley 2004 Can Archaeology Recover Past Intentions? Cambridge Archaeological Intentions 14(1):63-80 SUGGESTED - Saitta, Dean J. 1997 Power, Labor, and the Dynamics of Change in Chacoan Political Economy. American Antiquity 62(1):7-26 SUGGESTED - Sinclair, Anthony 2000 Constellations of Knowledge: Human Agency and Material Affordance in Lithic Technology. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Marcia-Anne Dobres and John E. Robb, pp. 197-212. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - More Readings TBD

Week 7 (11/07 and 11/09) Tuesday – CASE STUDIES: Cultural Change SLD Readings: - Shennan, Stephen 2002 Genes, Memes, and Human History: Darwinian Archaeology and Cultural Evolution, Chapter 3. Thames and Hudson, London. SUGGESTED - Dunnell, R. C. 1988. The Concept of Progress in Cultural Evolution. In Evolutionary Progress, edited by M. H. Nitecki, pp. 169-194. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. - Flannery, K. V. 1972. The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 3:399-426. SUGGESTED - Trigger, B.G. 1998. . Chapters 1 and 7-9. Oxford: Blackwell. - Yoffee, N. 1979. The Decline and Rise of Mesopotamian Civilization: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective on the Evolution of Social Complexity. American Antiquity 44(1):5-35. SUGGESTED - More readings TBD

Thursday – CASE STUDIES: Inequality SLD Readings: - Miller, Daniel, Michael Rowlands, and Christopher Tilley 1989 Introduction. In Domination and Resistance, edited by Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, and Christopher Tilley, pp. 1-26. Routledge, New York ♦REQUIRED♦ - Pauketat, Timothy R. 2000 The Tragedy of the Commoners. In Agency in Archaeology, edited by Maria-Anne Dobres and John Robb, pp. 113-129. Routledge, New York. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Ames, Kenneth M. - 2008 The Archaeology of Rank. Handbook of Archaeological Theories, edited by R. Alexander Bentley, Herbert D. G. Maschner and Christopher Chippindale, pp. 487-513. Altamira Press, Lanham. SUGGESTED - Arnold, Jeanne 1995 , Marginalization, and Economic Process. In Foundations of Social Inequality, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, pp. 87-104 SUGGESTED - Bender, Barbara 1989 The Roots of Inequality. In Domination and Resistance, edited by Daniel Miller, Michael Rowlands, and Christopher Tilley, pp. 83-95. Routledge, New York SUGGESTED - Camp, Stacey Lynn 2011 Materializing Inequality: The Archaeology of Tourism Laborers in Turn-of-the-Century Los Angeles. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(2):279-297 SUGGESTED

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- Flannery, Kent V. 1998 The Ground Plans of Archaic States. In Archaic States, edited by Gary M. Feinman and Joyce Marcus, pp. 15-57 School of Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe. SUGGESTED - Feinman, Gary M. 1995 The Emergence of Inequality: A Focus on Strategies and Processes. In Foundations of Social Inequality, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, pp. 255-279 SUGGESTED - Lucero, Lisa J. 2007 Classic Maya Temples, Politics, and the Voice of the People. American Antiquity 18(4):407-427 SUGGESTED - Mullins, Paul R. and Lewis C. Jones 2011 Archaeologies of Race and Urban Poverty: The Politics of Slumming, Engagement, and the Color Line. Historical Archaeology 45(1):33-50 SUGGESTED - Price, T. Douglas 1995 Social Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture. In Foundations of Social Inequality, edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman, pp. 122-151 SUGGESTED - Saitta, Dean J. 1997 Power, Labor, and the Dynamics of Change in Chacoan Political Economy. American Antiquity 62(1):7-26 SUGGESTED - Walker, Mark 2008 Aristocracies of Labor: Craft Unionism, Immigration, and Working- Class Households in West Oakland, California. Historical Archaeology 42(1):108-132.

DRAFT OF POSITION PAPER DUE

Week 8 (11/14 and 11/16) Tuesday – CASE STUDIES: Studies SLD Readings: - Knapp, A. Bernard 1999 Archaeological : Constructed, Conceptualized, Ideational. In Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Wendy Ashmore, and A. Bernard Knapp, pp. 1-30. Blackwell, New York. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Whitridge, Peter 2004 Landscapes, Houses, Bodies, Things: “Place” and the Archaeology of Inuit Imaginaries. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11(2):213-250 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Barrett, John C. 1999 The Mythical Landscapes of the British Iron Age. In Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Wendy Ashmore, and A. Bernard Knapp, pp. 253-265. Blackwell, New York. SUGGESTED - Bender, Barbara 1993 Introduction: Landscape – Meaning and Action. In Landscapes: Politics and Perspectives, edited by Barbara Bender, pp. 1-17. Berg, Oxford. SUGGESTED - Bender, Barbara 1993 – Contested Landscapes (Medieval to Present Day) In Landscapes: Politics and Perspectives, edited by Barbara Bender, pp. 245-279. Berg, Oxford. SUGGESTED - Brück, Joanna 2001 Monuments, Power, and Personhood in the British Neolithic. The Jounarl of Royal Anthropological Institute 7(4):649-667 SUGGESTED - David, Bruno, and Julian Thomas 2008 : Introduction. In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, edited by Bruno David and Julian Thomas, pp. 27- 43. , Walnut Creek SUGGESTED

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- Johnson, Matthew 2007 Ideas of Landscape, Chapter 5. Blackwell, New York SUGGESTED - Patterson, Thomas C. 2008 A Brief History of Landscape Archaeology in the Americas. In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, edited by Bruno David and Julian Thomas, pp. 77-84. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek SUGGESTED - Thomas, Julian 1993 The Politics of Vision and the Archaeologies of Landscape. In Landscapes: Politics and Perspectives, edited by Barbara Bender, pp. 19-48. Berg, Oxford. SUGGESTED - Tilley, Christopher 2008 Phenomenological Approaches to Landscape Archaeology. In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, edited by Bruno David and Julian Thomas, pp. 271-276. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek SUGGESTED - Van Dyke, Ruth 2008 Memory, Place, and the Memorialization of Landscape. In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology, edited by Bruno David and Julian Thomas, pp. 277-285. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek SUGGESTED

Thursday – CASE STUDIES: Gender Archaeologies (and Feminism in Archaeology) SLD Readings: - Hendon, Julia A. 1997 Women’s Work, Women’s Space, and Women’s Status among the Classic-Period Maya Elite of the Copán Valley, Honduras. In Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica, edited by Cheryl Claassen and Rosemary A. Joyce, pp. 33-46. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 8 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Williams, Bryn 2008 Chinese Masculinities and . Historical Archaeology 42(3):53-67 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Brumfiel, Elizabeth 1991 Weaving and Cooking: Women’s Production in Aztec Mexico. In Engendering Archaeology: Women in Prehistory, edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, pp. 224-251. Blackwell, New York. SUGGESTED - Conkey, Margaret W. and Joan Gero 1997 Program to Practice: Gender and Feminism in Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 26:411-437 - Conkey, Margaret W. and Janet D. Spector 1984 Archaeology and the Study of Gender. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory 7:1-38 SUGGESTED - Gero, Joan M. 1991 Genderlithics: Women’s Role in Stone Tool Production. In: Engendering Archaeology: Women in Prehistory, edited by Joan M. Gero and Margaret W. Conkey, pp. 163-192. Wiley Blackwell, New York. SUGGESTED - Guttman, Matthew 1998 Do We Need “Masculinist” (Manly?) Defenses of ? Archaeological Dialogues 5(2):112-115 - Hollimon, Sandra E. 2007 The Archaeology of Non-Binary in Native North American Societies. In Identity and Subsistence: Gender Strategies for Archaeology, edited by Sandra M. Nelson, pp. 103-118. Altamira Press, Lanham. SUGGESTED - Joyce, Rosemary A. 2004 Embodies Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, Masculinity, Sexuality. In A Companion to Social Archaeology, edited by Lynn Meskell and Robert Preucel, pp. 82-95. Blackwell, Oxford. SUGGESTED - Joyce, Rosemary A. 2005 Archaeology of the Body. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:139-158 SUGGESTED

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- Joyce, Rosemary A. 2000 Girling the Girl and Boying the Boy: The Production of Adulthood in Ancient Mesoamerica. In The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader, edited by Timothy Insoll, pp. 77-86. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Knapp, Bernard 1998 Boys Will Be Boys: Masculinist Approaches to a Gendered Archaeology. In Reader in , edited by Kalley Hays-Gilpin and David Whitley, pp. 241-252. Routledge, London. SUGGESTED - Meskell, Lynn 1999 Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class, Etc in Ancient Egypt. Blackwell, New York. SUGGESTED - Rubin, Gayle 2000 Sites, Settlements, and Urban Sex: Archaeology and the Study Gay Leathermen in San Francisco. In Archaeologies of Sexuality, edited by Robert A. Schmidt and Barbara L. Voss, pp. 62-88. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Voss, Barbara L. and Robert A. Schmidt 2000 Archaeologies of Sexuality: An Introduction. In Archaeologies of Sexuality, edited by Robert A. Schmidt and Barbara L. Voss, pp. 1-32. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Wylie, Alison 2007 Doing Archaeology as a Feminist: Introduction. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 14:209-216 SUGGESTED

Week 9 (11/21) Tuesday – CASE STUDIES: Race, Class, and Ethnicity SLD Readings: - Blakey, Michael 1998 The New York African Burial Ground Project: An Examination of Enslaved Lives, A Construction of Ancestral Ties. Transforming Anthropology 7(1):53- 58 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Camp, Stacey L. 2011 Consuming Citizenship? The Archaeology of Mexican Immigrant Ambivalence in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15(3):305-328 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Reckner, Paul E. 2001 Negotiating Patriotism at the Five Points: Clay Tobacco Pipes and Patriotic Imagery among Trade Unionist and Nativist in a Nineteenth-Century New York Neighborhood. Historical Archaeology 35(3):103-114 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Cross, Morag 2007 Accessing the Inaccessible: Disability and Archaeology. In The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader, edited by Timothy Insoll, pp. 179-194. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Díaz-Andreu, Margarita, and Sam Lucy 2005 Introduction. In The Archaeology of Identity: Approaches to Gender, Age, Status, Ethnicity, and Religion, pp. 1-12. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Jones, Siân 2002 The Archaeology of Ethnicity: Constructing Identities in the Past and Present. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Jones, Siân 2007 Discourses of Identity in the Interpretation of the Past. The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader, edited by Timothy Insoll, pp. 44-58. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Lucy, Sam 2005 Ethnic and Cultural Identities. In The Archaeology of Identity: Approaches to Gender, Age, Status, Ethnicity, and Religion, pp. 86-109. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Meskell, Lynn 2007 Archaeologies of Identity. In The Archaeology of Identities: A Reader, edited by Timothy Insoll, pp. 23-43. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED

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- Shennan, Stephen 1989 Introduction: Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity. In Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Identity, edited by Stephen Shennan, pp. 1-32. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED - Thomas, Brian W. 1998 Power and Community: The Archaeology of Slavery at the Hermitage Plantation. American Antiquity 63(4):531-551. SUGGESTED - Tilley, Christopher 2011 Materializing Identities: An Introduction. Journal of Material Culture 16(4):347-357. SUGGESTED - Van Dyke, Ruth 2003 Memory and the Construction of Chacoan Society. In Archaeologies of Memory, edited by Ruth Van Dyke, and Susan E. Alcock, pp. 180-200. Blackwell, New York. SUGGESTED - Voss, Barbara 2005 The Archaeology of Overseas Chinese Communities. World Archaeology 37(3):424-439. SUGGESTED - Yaeger, Jason 2000 The Social Construction of Communities in the Classic Maya Countryside: Strategies of Affiliation in Western Belize. In The Archaeology of Communities: A New World Perspective, edited by Marcello A. Canuto and Jason Yaeger, pp. 123-142. Routledge, New York. SUGGESTED

Thursday – NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)

Week 10 (11/28) Tuesday – CASE STUDIES: Colonialism, Empire, Nationalism SLD Readings: - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 12 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Atalay, Sonya 2006 as Decolonizing Practice. American Indian Quarterly 30(3-4):280-310. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Watkins, Joe E. 2003 Beyond the Margin: American Indians, First Nations, and Archaeology in North America. American Antiquity 68(2):273-285. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Casella, Eleanor C. and Barbara L. Voss 2012 Intimate Encounters: An Archaeology of Sexualities within Colonial Worlds. In Archaeology of Colonialism: Intimate Encounters and Sexual Effects, edited by Barbara L. Voss, and Eleanor C. Casella, pp. 1-10. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. - Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip, T. J. Ferguson, Dorothy Lippert, Randall H. McGuire, George L. Nicholas, Joe E. Watkins, and Larry J. Zimmerman 2010 The Premise and Promise of Indigenous Archaeology. American Antiquity 75(2):228-238. - Liebmann, Matthew 2010 Introduction: The Intersections of Archaeology and Postcolonial Studies. In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Uzma Z. Rizvi, pp.1-20. Altamira Press, Lanham. - Nicholas, George L. 2006 Decolonizing the Archaeological Landscape: The Practice and Politics of Archaeology in British Columbia. American Indian Quarterly 30(3/4):350- 380. - Patterson, Thomas C. 2010 A Brief History of Postcolonial Theory and Implications for Archaeology. In Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique, edited by Matthew Liebmann and Uzma Z. Rizvi, pp.21-34. Altamira Press, Lanham.

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- Rubertone, Patricia E. 2008 Engaging Monuments, Memories, and Archaeology. In Archaeologies of Placemaking: Monuments, Memories, and Engagement in Native North America. pp. 13-34. Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek. - Schmidt, Peter R., and Jonathan R. Walz 2007 Re-Representing African Pasts Through Historical Archaeology. American Antiquity 72(1):53-70. - Silliman, Steven 2005 Cultural Contact or Colonialism? Challenges in the Archaeology of Native North America. American Antiquity 70(1):55-74. - Smith, Claire, and Gary Jackson 2006 Decolonizing Indigenous Archaeology: Developments from Down Under. American Indian Quarterly 30(3/4):311-349. - Watkins, Joe E. 2005 Through Wary Eyes: Indigenous Perspectives on Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 34:429-449

Thursday – NO CLASS (AAAs)

Week 11 (12/05 and 12/07) Tuesday – CASE STUDIES: Representation in Museums and Academia, Ethics, Archaeological Practice SLD Readings: - Hodder, Ian 2010 The Past as Passion and Play: Catalhoyuk as a Site of Conflict in the Construction of Multiple Pasts. In in Theory: New Pragmatism, Second Edition, edited by Robert W. Preucel and Stephen A. Mrozowski, pp.582-593. Wiley Blackwell, New York. ♦REQUIRED♦ - Franklin, Maria 2001 A Black-Feminist Inspired Archaeology? Social Archaeology 1(1):108-125 ♦REQUIRED♦ - Moser, Stephanie 2007 On Disciplinary Culture: Archaeology as Fieldwork and Its Gendered Association. Journal of Archaeology Method and Theory 14(3):235-263 SUGGESTED - Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Chip 2009 The Archaeologist at a World Citizen: On the Morals of Heritage Preservation and Destruction. In Cosmopolitan Archaeologies, edited by Lynn Meskell, pp. 140-165. SUGGESTED - Hodder, Ian, and Scott Hutson 2003 Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology, Third Edition, Chapter 10. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge SUGGESTED - Abu El-Haj, Nadia 1998 Translating Truths: Nationalism, the Practice of Archaeology and the Remaking of the Past and Present in Contemporary Jerusalem. American Ethnologist 25(2): 166-188 SUGGESTED - Kramer, Jane 2008 The Petition: Israel, Palestine, and a Tenure Battle at Barnard. The New Yorker April 14 2008, 50-59 SUGGESTED - Shanks, Michael, and Randall H. McGuire 1996 The Craft of Archaeology. American Antiquity 61(1):75-88 SUGGESTED - Wylie, Alison 2000 Some Reflections on the Work of the SAA Committee for Ethics in Archaeology. Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal Canadien d'Archéologie 24(2):150:156

Thursday – CASE STUDIES: Future of Archaeological Theory, Archaeologies of Modernity SLD

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Readings: - Johnson, Matthew H. 2010 Archaeological Theory: An Introduction. New York Blackwell. Chapter 13 ♦REQUIRED♦ - The Statues Debate Facebook thread ♦REQUIRED♦ - Johnson, Matthew 1996 An Archaeology of Capitalism. Wiley-Blackwell, New York. SUGGESTED - Orser, Twenty-First-Century Archaeology 2010 Twenty-First-Century Historical Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Research 18(2):111-150 SUGGESTED - Wilkie, Laurie A. 2010 The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity, pp. 1-28. University of California Press, Berkeley. SUGGESTED - More Readings TBD

POSITION PAPER DUE

Position Paper: Topics: - Take a look at the back-and-forth between Ian Hodder and Fekri Hassan in Antiquity’s pages between 1997 and 1998 (readings are listed under Week 4, Thursday), and provide a critical evaluation of their arguments. Where do you stand in this discussion and why?

- Kent Flannery wrote a little parable for the state of archaeological theory in 1982, the (in)famous Golden Marshalltown article, which exposed some of the contradictions, problems, and hypocrisy in the discipline of archaeology at the end of the New Archaeology period of archaeology. Using the same narrative style, update this story to the current state of archaeology.

- Compare and contrast Meelart’s and Hodder’s examination of the archaeological material from the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük. In what ways to they differ? Are Melaart and Hodder asking the same kinds of questions? What kinds of data are privileged, and why? o Mellaart, James; 1967. Çatal Hüyük: a Neolithic Town in Anatolia. Thames & Hudson, London. o Hodder, Ian; 2006. “The Spectacle of Daily Performance at Çatalhöyük” in Archaeology of Performance: Theaters of Power, Community and Politics, edited by Takeshi Inomata and Lawrence Coben, pp. 81-102. Altamira Press, Lanham.

- Topic of your choosing – check with me before starting.

Important Dates: • October 3, 2017: Last day of the official add/drop period at the Registration Office without owing tuition or fees. • October 4th, 2017: Late Course Add Period. • October 11th, 2017 – November 14th, 2017: Late Course Drop Period

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References: Lasorsa, Dominic L. 1990 Theories of Mass Communication. Syllabus for a large class in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin.

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