The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of American Archaeology

by Alice Bec Kehoe and Alice Beck Kehoe

First published in 1998. The Land of Prehistory reveals the powerful ideological function American archaeology has naively served, from the discipline's construction in Victorian societal reform movements to the present. Alice Beck Kehoe chronicles major movements and influences such as the support of racist Spencerian evolutionism and Manifest Destiny ideologies, and the 1960s New Archaeology pandering to Big Science money. She concludes with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415920558
• ISBN13: 9780415920551
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"