Against typological tyranny in archaeology : a South American perspective

Archaeology Indians of South America Social archaeology Social structure Anthropological linguistics South America sähkökirjat
Springer
2013
EISBN 9781461487241
The papers in this book question the tyranny of typological thinking in archaeology through case studies from various South American countries (Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil) and Antarctica. They aim to show that typologies are unavoidable (they are, after all, the way to create networks that give meanings to symbols) but that their tyranny can be overcome if they are used from a critical, heuristic and non-prescriptive stance: critical because the complacent attitude towards their tyranny is replaced by a militant stance against it; heuristic because they are used as mea.
