university of calgary press space and spatial analysis in archaeology dec 2005

[...]... perspective is inherently social insofar as it assumes that all space is shaped and defined by social relationships, and that social relations define and constrain the makeup of spatial relations in the built environment He also notes that The Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson 1984) has inherently Durkheimian underpinnings by conceiving of the organization of space in terms of organic and mechanical... discipline become part of the theoretical mainstream, and a new synthesis of processual and postprocessual theories emerges (Johnson 1999:176–187) As Levinson (2003) has suggested, notions of space and spatial reckoning are inextricably culture- (and language-) bound, and a better understanding of space and the experience of living in space should be one of the primary goals of the behavioural and social sciences,... C Fernandez, and Marc U Zender Elizabeth C Robertson, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada Jeffrey D Seibert, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada Deepika C Fernandez, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, ... Cambridge Ucko, P J., R Tringham, and G W Dimbleby |1972| Man, Settlement and Urbanism: Proceedings of a Meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects Held at the Institute of Archaeology, London University Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects, 1970 Duckworth, London Whalen, M E |1976| Zoning within an Early Formative Community in the Valley of Oaxaca In The Early Mesoamerican... approaches to landscape archaeology, and highlights his own interest in phenomenological approaches to this line of inquiry An important aspect of landscape archaeology is the study of settled landscapes, an area of inquiry also heavily influenced by human geography The study of archaeological urban landscapes has been taken up by a number of scholars interested in the sociopolitics of urbanism, as... households have also been influenced by the critiques of postprocessual archaeologists and the increasingly eclectic and interdisciplinary nature of archaeology Household archaeology has become increasingly influenced by studies conducted in archaeology s sister disciplines of social anthropology and sociology (see Wilk and Ashmore 1988) In particular the ethnographic work carried out by Netting et al (1984)... to spatial analysis became dominant in Anglo-American archaeology (and in certain branches of European archaeology as well [Johnson 1999]), some scholars began to question the relevance of such an approach to the spatial analysis of past cultures As Ashmore (2002:1175) notes, the late 1970s saw increasing interest in overtly social approaches to spatial questions in archaeology The development of postprocessual... and processualist archaeologists believed, or imbued with multifaceted sociocultural meanings, as many postprocessual archaeologists believe The influence of the Scandinavian archaeologists on scholars working in other areas of Europe and in North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries meant the spread of this increasingly spatial view of archaeology, and the transformation of. .. firmly ensconced in this new theoretical milieu, as it contains a variety of opinions and approaches to spatial analysis in archaeology, and underscores the cultural construction of the very concept of space itself R e f e r e n c e s C it e d Allen, K M S., S W Green, and E Zubrow (editors) |1990| Interpreting Space: GIS and Archaeology Taylor and Francis, London Aldenderfer, M., and H D G Maschner... and Critical Archaeology In American Archaeology Past and Future: A Celebration of the Society for American Archaeology (1935–1985), edited by D Meltzer, D Fowler, and J Sabloff, pp 415–438 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C Levinson, S |2003| Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Lock, G., and Z Stančič |1995| Archaeology and . scholars working in other areas of Europe and in North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries meant the spread of this increasingly spatial view of archaeology, and the. Social Logic of Space (Hillier and Hanson 1984) has inherently Durkheimian underpinnings by conceiving of the or- ganization of space in terms of organic and mechanical solidarity. In archaeology, . by the University of New Mexico Press. Papers originally presented at the Conference: Space and spatial analysis in Archaeology held at the University of Calgary, Nov. 18th., 2002. Includes