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CPSC - Charles Stanish (Anthropology and Archeology UCLA)
Culture, Power and Social Change
“Philosophical traditions in contemporary archaeology”
April 17, 2008 Haines 352 4-6PM
PLEASE NOTE THAT CPSC IS OPEN ONLY TO CURRENT UCLA STUDENTS, FACULTY MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Abstract: We can identify four distinct epistemological traditions in the field of
anthropological archaeology: critical, hermeneutic, historicist, and
scientific. I will briefly discuss the nature of archaeological enquiry
in each of these four traditions and then assess the relevance of
archaeological theory-building for the social sciences in general