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The Razor's Edge: Symbolic‐Structuralist Archeology and the Expansion of Archeological Inference
Author(s) -
Watson Patty Jo,
Fotiadis Michael
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1990.92.3.02a00040
Subject(s) - watson , argument (complex analysis) , inference , archaeology , history , sociology , epistemology , anthropology , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , biochemistry , chemistry
In this two‐part article, Watson summarizes and discusses a number of new themes in the literature on archeological theory with critical emphasis on symbolic‐structural approaches. Fotiadis comments by applying a structuralist analysis to Watson's argument.