Are We There Yet? Archaeology and the Postmodern in the New Millennium
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چکیده
The present text discusses the significance of post- modern condition in contemporary archaeology. Five themes associated with postmodernism are discussed
 (a) relativization truth, knowledge, and mean- ing, (b) fragmentation grand narrative, (c) relation between agency discourse, (d) plural- ism, multivocality, heterogeneity, (e) rhetoric styles writing. In debate it has been suggested that is a past phase these contested issues have become less im- portant. It is, however, argued here by no means resolved, but rather bypassed shifting focus to archaeology as practice or, theoretical terms, towards particularistic neo-ma- terialist ontologies.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Current Swedish archaeology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1102-7355', '2002-3901']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37718/csa.2012.11