Digging into Popular Culture: Theories and Methodologies in Archeology, Anthropology, and Other Fields

by Pat Browne, Ray B. Browne

Overview

This volume presents archeological studies in conjunction with cultural anthropological studies as a means to enhance popular culture studies. Scholar Malcolm K. Shuman points out that the study of archeology must be careful to chart the total human content of an artifact, because archeology “is a profoundly human (and humanizing) endeavor that cannot be divorced from the matrix of human life.” The other ten essays cover aspects of archeology and cultural anthropology, and the authors are meticulous in studying their subject in context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879725228
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/15/1991
Edition description:	1
Pages:	190
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ray B. Browne is professor emeritus of Popular Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.  Through some sixty books and a variety of initiatives-including the founding of the Journal of Popular Culture, the Popular Culture Association, and the Popular Press itself-he has played an instrumental role in making popular culture a topic of serious inquiry.