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The Archaeo-Ethnology of Hunter-Gatherers or the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record in Archaeology
Abstract
Many of the constructs of space, time and behavior in the ethnographic literature on hunter-gatherers may be partly determined by the severe constraints on ethnographic fieldwork. This paper discusses the genesis of some of these constructs, points out that the anthropological theory consumed by archaeologists is often based on, or developed for these constructs, and suggests that some of these constructs may be insensitive to deal with behavioral variability expressed in the archeological record, even though they can be made to fit any data. Their application to the archaeological record may merely be ethnography with a shovel in which the form and the structure of the ethnographic record are reproduced in the archaeological one.
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- Authors
- Wobst, H. M.
- Venue
- American Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1978-04
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 303-309
- ISSN
- 0002-7316 (ISSN-L)
- 2325-5064
- OpenAlex
- W2322607361
- Cited by
- 409
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 19.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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