Archaeology and Modernity

This is the first booklength study to explore the relationship betweenarchaeology and modern thought showing how philosophical ideas that developedin the sevent... » 

This is the first booklength study to explore the relationship betweenarchaeology and modern thought showing how philosophical ideas that developedin the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still dominate our approach to thematerial remains of ancient societies.Addressing current debates from a new viewpoint Archaeology and Modernitydiscusses the modern emphasis on method rather than ethics or meaning ourunderstanding of change in history and nature the role of the nationstate informing our views of the past and contemporary notions of human individualitythe mind and materiality. «