Bruno Latour and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro provided the initial impetus for explicitly
ontological research in archaeology. Their impact on archaeologists, however, has been …

Archaeologists have long been interested in contemporary material culture, but only recently
has a dedicated subfield of archaeology of the contemporary world begun to emerge …

In influx & efflux Jane Bennett pursues a question that was bracketed in her book Vibrant
Matter: how to think about human agency in a world teeming with powerful nonhuman …

Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium provides an account of the changing world of
archaeological theory and a challenge to more traditional narratives of archaeological …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

A lively and accessible introduction to themes and debates in archaeological theory for
students of all levels Archaeological Theory is a relatable, accessible, reader-friendly first …

Introduction sir Mortimer Wheeler, that illustrious voice of a reasoned archaeological
imagination, never tired in asserting that archaeologists dig up people, not things (1954, v; …

From examinations of prehistoric burial to understanding post-industrial spaces and heritage
practices, the writing of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is gaining increasing importance …

Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of
the twentieth century (Schnapp et al. 2004; Thomas 2004), including philosophers, writers …

Since the nineteenth century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material
replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly …