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Images of power and contradiction: feminist theory and post-processual archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ericka Engelstad
Ericka Engelstad*
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Department of Archaeology, Institute of Social Science, University of Tromsø, 9000 Tromsø, Norway
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Archaeology, like many of the sciences, works to a masculine metaphor, the (male) archaeologist as hero explores and tames the mysteries of his (female) subject. Feminist theory has made important criticism of positivist science on these grounds, drawing on much the same postmodern theory as ‘post-processual’ archaeology. How do the ‘post-processuals’ appear, seen in the feminist light?

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 248 , September 1991 , pp. 502 - 514
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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