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  title info:
    title: Archaeological structuration
    sub title: a critical engagement for the twenty-first century
  name:
    name part: Searcy, Michael T. (Michael Taylor)
    name part: 1976-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: azu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Archaeological Structuration is a critical analysis of the theory of structuration and its utility in the study of societal development over deep time. Structuration theory was originally developed by Anthony Giddens in sociology and adopted piecemeal into archaeology. This book takes a closer look at its contributions to new materialism and develops novel ways to operationalize the theory in archaeological research in the twenty-first century. To illustrate the usefulness of structuration theory, archaeologist Michael T. Searcy deploys it to uncover new understandings of ancient societies, particularly focusing on the Casas Grandes civilization in precolonial northern Mexico. Spanning more than seven hundred years, this society exemplifies the rise of social complexity in the Western Hemisphere. Searcy reexamines previous hypotheses about major structural shifts during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries CE, providing fresh insights and updated perspectives. This book not only revisits the foundational influence of structuration theory but also introduces new methodologies to study the longue durée, the long-term historical trajectories of ancient societies. Searcy deftly bridges the gap between theoretical frameworks and practical archaeological applications, providing a thorough analysis of how structuration can address real-world problems through the lens of ancient societal transformations.
  table of contents: Introduction : archaeology and the longue durée -- 1. Elements of archaeological structuration -- 2. Milieux, renascence, and structural depth -- 3. Landscapes of structuration -- 4. Renascence in Casas Grandes : the rise of a desert city in ancient Mexico -- 5. Archaeological structuration for the 21st century.
  note: Michael T. Searcy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-174) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology
  classification: CC72 .S43 2025
  classification: 930.1
  identifier: 9780816538720
  identifier: 0816538727
  identifier: 9780816556021
  identifier: 2025003813
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250414
    record change date: 20260807143405.0
    record identifier: in00005675830