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Borstel, Christopher Lane.

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Constructing prehistory in the People's Republic of China: An ethnography of state, society, and archaeology.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Constructing prehistory in the People's Republic of China: An ethnography of state, society, and archaeology./
Author:	Borstel, Christopher Lane.
Description:	272 p.
Notes:	Chair: Geoffrey W. Conrad.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Archaeology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9404339

Constructing prehistory in the People's Republic of China: An ethnography of state, society, and archaeology.
Borstel, Christopher Lane.

Constructing prehistory in the People's Republic of China: An ethnography of state, society, and archaeology. - 272 p.

Chair: Geoffrey W. Conrad.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1993.

The dissertation is exploratory in its spirit. It seeks to raise issues concerning archaeology and it social context rather than resolve them. It also attempts to demonstrate the possibilities of an ethnography of archaeology.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Anthropology, Archaeology.

Constructing prehistory in the People's Republic of China: An ethnography of state, society, and archaeology.
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245 1 0 $a Constructing prehistory in the People's Republic of China: An ethnography of state, society, and archaeology.
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500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-09, Section: A, page: 3486.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 1993.
520 $a The dissertation is exploratory in its spirit. It seeks to raise issues concerning archaeology and it social context rather than resolve them. It also attempts to demonstrate the possibilities of an ethnography of archaeology.
520 $a Archaeology is usually considered to be a branch of science or history that operates independently of any particular social or cultural context. In this view, the knowledge it produces about the past, though undoubtedly incomplete, is essentially factual and objective: only when the state or other political partisans engage in heavy-handed manipulation of the field and its processes of discovery does archaeological knowledge become mythologized.
520 $a This dissertation adopts a somewhat different view. It regards archaeology as deeply embedded in its social milieu, and it views the social context of archaeology as shaping the knowledge it constructs about the past in subtle ways. Taking contemporary China as a case study, it is proposed that the questions Chinese archaeologists ask and the methods and evidence they use to investigate these questions are shaped to some degree by the social, political, and economic agendas of the state. Further, it views archaeology not just as a field of knowledge but also as an interest group composed of practitioners, who draw upon archaeological knowledge and practices as a source of symbols to constitute themselves.
520 $a Chapter 1 describes the author's discovery of the problem and of the potentials of the archaeology-ethnography interface. Chapter 2 explores notions of symbols and boundaries, outlines the several meanings of "archaeology," and describes Chinese archaeology as a socially constituted activity. Chapter 3 focuses on archaeological fieldwork as an activity that is both a domain of scholarly practice and cultural practice. Chapter 4 sketches the many reasons the state is involved with archaeology. Chapter 5 looks at one particular archaeological narrative, which concerns the Neolithic period in Nanjing, to show the interaction between the state and the discipline in the creation of archaeological knowledge. Chapter 6 discusses the implications of the essay for understanding both China and the practice of archaeology, and it also proposes that the concept of community may be useful for further explorations of state, society, and archaeology.
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