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This chapter is an analytic overview of the volume as a whole. Taken together, the papers in this collection have three key sets of qualities. The first is a deep grounding in the evidence, allowing its fissures and contradictions to challenge the assumed and presumed. The second is through an engagement with theory, plying between the abstract and the empirical to advance interpretation. The third is through engagement – taking a stand and making explicit the inevitable connection between the present and the past. Running through all of these chapters is a consistent critique of colonialism and economic forms and the dangers of totalizing interpretations that deny the valency of agency and local context. Taken together, they hover at the edge of a theory of our own, an archaeologist Baudrillard or Bourdieu or Bhabha who can pull together the strands into a theory of nonverbal representation of meaning Please revise the sentence “Taken together, they hover at the edge of a theory…” for clarity of thought..
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Hall, M. (2011). New Subjectivities: Capitalist, Colonial Subject, and Archaeologist. In: Croucher, S., Weiss, L. (eds) The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0192-6_13
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