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An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion
Severin M. Fowles
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Paperback. This title undertakes a sustained critique of religion as analytical category in archaeological research. Building from a careful dissection of the relationship between secularism, pre-modernity, and archaeology, Fowles explores just what is at stake in our reconstructions of an enchanted past. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
There is an unsettling paradox in the anthropology of religion. A large body of scholarship now questions the universality of “religion” as an analytical category in ethnographic and historical studies. Modern understandings of religion emerged out of a specifically Western genealogy, and noting this, many have grown suspicious of any claim that such understandings can be applied with fidelity to premodern or non-Western contexts. Contemporary archaeologists, in contrast, now use the terms “religion” and “ritual” with greater ease than ever, even though their deeply premodern and fully non-Western objects of study would seem to present the greatest challenges to universal ... Read more
There is an unsettling paradox in the anthropology of religion. A large body of scholarship now questions the universality of “religion” as an analytical category in ethnographic and historical studies. Modern understandings of religion emerged out of a specifically Western genealogy, and noting this, many have grown suspicious of any claim that such understandings can be applied with fidelity to premodern or non-Western contexts. Contemporary archaeologists, in contrast, now use the terms “religion” and “ritual” with greater ease than ever, even though their deeply premodern and fully non-Western objects of study would seem to present the greatest challenges to universal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Santa Fe, United States
ISBN
9781934691564
SKU
V9781934691564
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