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The Positioning of Archaeology within Anthropology: A Canadian Historical Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jane H. Kelley  and
Ronald F. Williamson
Jane H. Kelley
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
Ronald F. Williamson
Affiliation:
Archaeological Services Inc., 528 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2P9, Canada
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Abstract

In this paper we argue that archaeologists and anthropologists should be aware of forces that encourage the separation of archaeology from anthropology. Sociological, organizational, and intellectual factors that do not necessarily have disciplinary separation as their logical consequence can nonetheless have a cumulative effect that moves the relationship between the subfields of anthropology in the direction of greater or lesser independence. We compare the relative strength of certain factors that could either encourage or discourage the perpetuation of four-field anthropology in Canada and the United States.

Resumen

Resumen

En este articulo argúimos que arqueólogos y antropologos deben estar alertas a las fuerzas que estimulan la separatión de la arqueología y la antropología. Factores sociológicos, intelectuales, y de organizatión, aunque no producen necesariamente una separación, tienen un efecto acumulativo que mueve la relatión entre subdisciplinas en una directión de major o menor independencia. Comparamos lafuerza relativa de ciertos factores que podrían estimular o evitar la continuatión de una antropología de cuatro subdisciplinas en Canadá y los Estados Unidos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 1 , January 1996 , pp. 5 - 20
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1996

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