Archaeology and Ideology in a ‘postmodern’ environment: material remains of ideological claims

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https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-3748.2020.1.36727

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Theory of archaeology. Ideology. Postmodernism.

Abstract

According to scholar Fredrik Fahlandar, postmodernism has caused an intellectual identity crisis throughout the humanities. Using his chapter on Postmodern Archaeologies as a guide, this essay attempts to address some of the ways in which archaeology and the other social sciences has actually benefited from the scrutiny of postmodernist criticism, while at the same time maintaining its usefulness and insisting on its ability to avoid a relativistic approach to its research questions. The essay particularly emphasizes archaeology’s on-going relationship to the study of ideology, as both evident within the archaeological record itself and also its influence on the researchers conducting the investigations.

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John Gabriel O’Donnell, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Mestrando em História pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS

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2020-06-13

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O’Donnell, J. G. (2020). Archaeology and Ideology in a ‘postmodern’ environment: material remains of ideological claims. Oficina Do Historiador, 13(1), e36727. https://doi.org/10.15448/2178-3748.2020.1.36727

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Vol. 13 No. 1 (2020)

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