THE PRESENT PAST: An Introduction to Anthropology for Archaeologists pdf

伊恩·霍德 (Ian Hodder) 是斯坦福大学邓利维家族考古学教授。 作为英国科学院院士，他因其成就获得了无数奖项，包括瑞典古物学会颁发的奥斯卡蒙特利乌斯奖章、皇家人类学研究所颁发的赫胥黎纪念奖章、菲森国际奖和考古学协会颁发的金质奖章。 美国研究所，以及布里斯托大学和莱顿大学的名誉博士学位。 霍德是许多书籍的作者，包括行动中的符号（剑桥，1982 年）、阅读过去（剑桥，1982 年）和纠缠：人类与事物之间关系的考古学（2012 年）。

THE PRESENT PAST: An Introduction to Anthropology for Archaeologists pdf 伊恩·霍德

This updated edition of Professor Ian Hodder's original and classic work on the role which anthropology must play in the interpretation of the archaeological record.There has long been a need for archaeologists and anthropologists to correlate their ideas and methods for interpreting the material culture of past civilizations. Archaeological interpretation of the past is inevitably based on the ideas and experiences of the present and the use of such ethnographic analogy has been widely adapted - and criticized, not least in Britain.In this challenging study, Ian Hodder questions the assumptions, values and methods, which have been too readily accepted. At the same time, he shows how anthropology can be applied to archaeology. He examines the criteria for the proper use of analogy and, in particular, emphasizes the need to consider the meaning and interpretation of material cultures within the total social and cultural contexts. He discusses anthropological models of refuse deposits, technology and production, subsistence, settlement, burial, trade exchange, art form and ritual; he then considers their application to comparable archaeological data.Throughout, Professor Hodder emphasizes the need for a truly scientific approach and a critical self-awareness by archaeologists, who should be prepared to study their own social and cultural context, not least their own attitudes to the present-day material world.