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Social Science Archaeology

The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger

Theoretical Empiricism

by (author) Ronald F. Williamson & Michael S. Bisson

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2006
Category
Archaeology
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773531277
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $110.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773531611
    Publish Date
    Aug 2006
    List Price
    $37.95

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Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory, an Egyptologist, and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he has been an effective voice for non-oppositional forms of argument in archaeological theory. In The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger, leading scholars discuss their own approaches to the interpretation of archaeological data in relation to Trigger's fundamental intellectual contributions Contributors include Michael Bisson (McGill), Stephen Chrisomalis (Toronto), Jerimy J. Cunningham (Calgary), Brian Fagan (Lindbrior Corporation), Clare Fawcett (St. Francis Xavier), Junko Habu (California at Berkeley), Ian Hodder (Stanford), Jane Kelley (Calgary), Martha Latta (Toronto), Robert MacDonald (Archaeological Services Inc.), Randall McGuire (Binghamton), Lynn Meskell (Columbia), Toby Morantz (McGill), Robert Pearce (London Museum of Archaeology), David Smith (Toronto), Peter Timmins (Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants), Silvia Tomásková (North Carolina), Bruce G. Trigger (McGill), Alexander von Gernet (Toronto), Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier), Ronald F. Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc.), Alison Wylie (Washington), and Eldon Yellowhorn (Simon Frasier)

About the authors

Ronald F. Williamson is the co-editor of Taming the Taxonomy: Towards a New Understanding of Great Lakes Archaeology and president and chief archaeologist, Archaeological Services Inc.

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Michael S. Bisson is associate professor and chair, anthropology, McGill University.

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