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Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond

By David S. Whitley (Editor), Johannes H.N. Loubser (Editor), Gavin Whitelaw (Editor)
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By David S. Whitley (Editor), Johannes H.N. Loubser (Editor), Gavin Whitelaw (Editor)
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Cognitive Archaeology: Mind, Ethnography, and the Past in South Africa and Beyond aims to interpret the social and cultural lives of the past, in part by using ethnography to build informed models of past cultural and social systems and partly by using natural models to understand symbolism and belief.

How does an archaeologist interpret the past? Which theories are relevant, what kinds of data must be acquired, and how can interpretations be derived? One interpretive approach, developed in ...

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Social SciencesAnthropology & ArchaeologySocio-Cultural AnthropologyArchaeologySocio-Cultural Anthropology - General & MiscellaneousArchaeology - General & Miscellaneous