The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarly work to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology over the past two decades. Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Places, and Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay that contextualizes the history and developments in social archaeology and related fields. Draws together newer trends that are challenging established ways of understanding the past. Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated major theoretical trends.

The Companion to Social Archaeology is the first scholarlywork to explore the encounter of social theory and archaeology overthe past two decades.* * Grouped into four sections - Knowledges, Identities, Placesand Politics - each of which is prefaced with a review essay thatcontextualizes the history and developments in social archaeologyand related fields.* Draws together newer trends that are challenging establishedways of understanding the past.* Includes contributions by leading scholars who instigated majortheoretical trends.

List of Figures.Notes on Contributors.Part I: Knowledges:.1. The "Social" in Archaeological Theory: AnHistorical and Contemporary Perspective: Ian Hodder (StandfordUniversity).2. Cross-Cultural Comparison and Archaeological Theory: Bruce G.Trigger (McGill University).3. Social Archaeology and Marxist Social Thought: Thomas C.Patterson (University of California, Riverside).4. Embodied Subjectivity: Gender, Femininity, MasculinitySexuality: Rosemary A. Joyce (University of CaliforniaBerkeley).5. Social Archaeology and Origins Research: A PaleolithicPerspective: Clive Gamble and Erica Gittins (Both at the Universityof Southampton).Part II: Identities:.6. Archaeology and the Life Course: A Time and Age for Gender:Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading).7. The Past and Foreign Countries: Colonial and Post-ColonialArchaeology and Anthropology: Chris Gosden (Pitt Rivers MuseumUniversity of Oxford).8. Material Culture: Current Problems: Victor Buchli (UniversityCollege, London).9. Ideology, Power, and Capitalism: The Historical Archaeologyof Consumption: Paul R. Mullins (Indiana University-PurdueUniversity, Indianapolis).Part III: Places:.10. Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology: Emma Blake (StanfordUniversity).11. Social Archaeologies of Landscape: Wendy Ashmore (Universityof California, Riverside).12. Living and Working at Home: The Social Archaeology ofHousehold Production and Social Relations: Julia A. Hendon(Gettysburg College).13. Diaspora and Identity in Archaeology: Moving beyond theBlack Atlantic: Ian Lilley (University of Queensland).Part IV: Politics:.14. The Political Economy of Archaeological Practice and theProduction of Heritage in the Middle East: Reinhard.Bernbeck and Susan Pollock (Both at: State University of NewYork, Binghamton).15. Latin American Archaeology: From Colonialism ToGlobalization: Gustavo Politis (CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina) andJosé Antonio Perez Gollán (CONICET-Universidad de BuenosAires, Argentina).16. Contested Pasts: Archaeology and Native Americans: RandallH. McGuire (Binghamton University).17. Identity, Modernity, and Archaeology: The Case of Japan:Koji Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan).Index