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Archaeology and anthropology: a growing divide?

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Joshua D.Englehardt & Ivy A.Rieger (ed.). These ‘thin partitions’: bridging the growing divide between cultural anthropology and archaeology. 2017. Boulder: University Press of Colorado; 978-1-60732-541-3 hardback $75.

Pam J.Crabtree & PeterBogucki (ed.). European archaeology as anthropology. Essays in memory of Bernard Wailes. 2017. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; 978-1-934536-89-6 hardback £47.

BillFinlayson & GraemeWarren (ed.). The diversity of hunter-gatherer pasts. 2017. Oxford & Havertown (PA): Oxbow; 978-1-78570-588-5 paperback £36.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2018

Alan Barnard*
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, UK (Email: [email protected])

Extract

The three volumes reviewed here have different origins but a common theme: all try to put some social or cultural anthropology into, or back into, archaeology. In the United Kingdom these are separate disciplines anyway, but in North America they are usually taught in the same department and have similar interests. The problem is that they are growing apart.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2018 

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