Agency in Archaeology

<strong>Agency in Archaeology</strong> is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept ofagency and to examine indepth its potential to inform our unders... » 

Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept ofagency and to examine indepth its potential to inform our understanding of thepast. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices holdintentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyondlooking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider theindividual and the groupAgency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renownedscholars who have very different and often conflicting stances on the meaningand use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of fivetheoreticallybased discussions and nine case studies drawing on regions fromNorth America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe and ranging insubject from the late Pleistocene huntergatherers to the restructuring ofgender relations in the northeastern US. «