Archaeology and Anthropology

For a while now archaeology has felt that ‘its time has come’. Growing with thoughtful practice, merging established methodologies with sophisticated and cosmopolitan theorizing, a disciplinary maturity urges making a mark in the academy... This is precisely what [this volume] undertakes. Indeed, whether it is Julian Thomas’ mystical sounding call to embrace “presence” or Ingold’s guru-like utterance that ”to be is to know, and that to know is to be”, there is a poignancy on the part of many of the contributions that sets this collection apart, offering introspective analysis and cognitive tools for just such therapeutic possibility.' ~Archaeolog

Authors at the intersection of archaeology and anthropology open up exciting possibilities for dialogue and stretch the relationship between the disciplines in new ways.' ~Ian Hodder, Stanford University

This collection of essays on the relationships between archaeology and anthropology provides a dialogue that has waxed and waned over the years with a radical new impetus. The result is a groundbreaking set of new proposals about what anthropologists and archaeologists need to learn from each other.' ~John Gledhill, University of Manchester

This excellent set of essays examines the relationship between anthropology and archaeology It emerges from a one-day conference held at the University of Cambridge. Coherent and carefully edited throughout, it forms a major contribution to this debate. ~David Shankland, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 20 (2014)