Critique of Archaeological Reason
1. Introduction to the website

Contents

Giorgio Buccellati – May 2017

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The twelve sections

The upper part of the left side bar is displayed at all times, and gives the table of contents of the entire website. It consists of twelve sections, divided into three parts.

I. THE PROJECT: the website and the printed volume

  1. The introduction establishes the nature of the website.
  2. A full Table of Contents of the CAR volume is given here, together with the Preface to the volume.
  3. The notes offer a standard set of references, keyed like footnotes to the chapters and sections of the book.

II.THE FORUM: bibliography and expanded treatments

  1. The bibliography, which is fully annotated, is organically tied to the notes and the rest of the website through a high number of hyperlinks.
  2. Excerpts and Summaries give more extensive descriptions of individual titles (summareis) and extensive quotations from the author's work (excerpts), sorted and organized thematically.
  3. Reviews offer critical assessments of individual titles or of the overall work of an individual author.
  4. Themes are expanded analyses of a given topic relating to the central argument of the Critique.
  5. Monographs are multi-page thematic developments, that combine the features of excerpts, reviews and themes to provide a more comprehensive presentation.

III. UTILITIES: indices and work related activities

  1. The indices serve the traditional purpose of directing attention to given keywords, thus supplementing the ample use of hyperlinks that are otherwise present in the website.
  2. The section on authorship highlights the collaborative nature of the effort. In its final stages, work on the book is progressing as a continuing seminar in which various young colleagues and students cooperate: their contribution is specifically acknowledged here.
  3. The data handling section presents a technical description of the formats and the program that produces the website.
  4. The archive is reserved for future listing of older versions of the website.

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The subsections

Within each section there is a variable number of subsections. The list of these subsections is given in the lower part of the left side bar, highlighted in yellow. This list changes whenever a new section is opened, and serves to navigate within the section. For example, the current page on Contents is linked to section 1. Introduction, and thus the lower part of the left side bar gives the pertinent list of subsections.

Below is a list of the other subsections in the current version. Together with the list of subsections from Section 1.Introduction (in the left sidebar), this constitutes in effect a complete site map.

2.Critique: the book
Front matter
Table of contents
Preface
Introduction
Index
3.Notes
CAR Table of Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
I. FUNDAMENTALS
   2 Archaeology and grammar
   3 Categorization
   4 The search for objectivity
II. ANALYSIS
   5 Stratigraphic analysis
   6 Typological analysis
   7 Integrative analysis
III. REASSEMBLED CONSTRUCT
   8 The invention of a site
   9 The physical record
   10 The referential record
IV. THE PRIVILEGED VENUE
   11 Digital thought
   12 Digital text
   13 The archaeological record
V. THE WIDER FRAME
   14 The relevance of structure
   15 The critical approach
   16 hermeneutics
   17 Conclusion
4.Bibliography
A
B Bo
C
D
E
F
G
H He Ho
I
J
K Ke Ko
L
M Mi
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W Wo
X
Y
Z

Websites
5.Excerpts
Baudrillard
Bietti
Bloch
Cassirer
Caws
Cowgill
Foucault
Gero
Harris, Edwards
Harris, Zellig
Hayden
Heidegger
Hodder
Hodder & Hutson
Hollinger
Kelly-Buccellati
Lucas
Lyman
O'Brien & Lyman
Olsen et al.
Panofsky
Preucel
Rathje et al.
Read
Renfrew
Rouse
Salmon
Sartre
Voorrips
Willey
6.Reviews
Burdick et al.
Panofsky
7.Themes
broken traditions
colonialism
critique
critique/theory
emplacement
excavation
identity: food
inference
stratigraphy
8.Monographs
Kant
   introduction
   citations
   The two doctrines
      doctrine
      analytics
      dialectics
      method
   Structure
      tensionality
      inclusivity
      referentiality
   Other concepts
      critique
      metaphysics
      para-perception

Wynn
   introduction
   GENERAL NOTIONS
      methodology
      spatial competence
   INTUITIVE GEOMETRY
      typological concepts
      projective concepts
      Euclidean concepts
9.Indices
Topical
Chronological
Authors
10.Authorship
Agolli
Bartolini
Bezzera
Buccellati, F.
Buccellati, G.
Cremonesi
De Pietri
De Simone
Dodgen
Ermidoro
Fornasieri
Forni
Grassi
Paolucci
Pintaudi
Recht
Rossi
11.Data handling
Research Group
methodology
input
intermediate output
DABI program
12.Archives

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