In light of the growing social scientific interest in agency theory, this paper sets out to
examine and critically evaluate recent approaches to agency within archaeology. To this …

'Agency', the concept, its connections to ontology and its uses within archaeological theory,
are discussed and criticized. In recent archaeological theory, the term 'agency'has been …

In this paper I want to make some general comments on the state of archaeological theory
today. I argue that a full answer to the question 'does archaeological theory exist?'must be …

This book questions the value of the concept of'agency', a term used in sociological and
philosophical literature to refer to individual free will in archaeology. On the one hand it has …

Agency is obviously embodied and although bodies are normally regarded as singular,
none the less agency cannot be analyzed in terms of isolated beings. Agency is always …

The term'agency'in postprocessual archaeology have to be understood in terms of an
opposition that was being made with the term'behavior'. Archaeological emphasis on the …

We argue that since agency and structure are indivisible parts of a single process through
which society is continuously created over time, everything that persists or changes in …

As a theory of social reproduction, agency provides an attractive framework for
understanding how material culture relates to everyday social action, to long-standing …

The premise that human agents shaped past social and natural environments and were also
constrained by those environments prompts the question: How can we, as archaeologists …

Relational Identities and Other-than-Human Agency in Archaeology explores the benefits
and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of the social agency of …