The Last Sixty Years: Toward a Social History of Americanist Archeology in the United States
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 88 (1) , 7-26
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1986.88.1.02a00010
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the development of Americanist archeology in the United States.Since the 1920s, there have been two, and sometimes more, interpretive communities among Americanist archeologists in the United States.These reflect and are related to the development of U.S. society. One articulates the concerns of national capital and its allies; the other, the interests ofinternational capital and its allies. They are grounded in different theoretical traditions. The discourses produced by their proponents resonate withparticular world views that reflect different relations to power.Keywords
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