"Marxism in Contemporary Western Archaeology", Bruce G. Trigger in Archaeological Method and Theory, Volume 5, edited by Michael B . Schiffer. Tucson, Unversity of Arizona Press 1993

Professor Trigger's contribution to Schiffer's volune is awell-reasoned and significant consideration of the influence of Marxist thought on thework of number of contemporary archaeologists. He is more critical of recentdevelopments within Marxist archaeol­ogy than is McGuire; the article stands as achallenge to those who utilize Marxist ideas to reconsider the direction they havelately taken. In this article Trigger demonstrates his thorough knowledge of bothMarxist theory and the social history of archaeology (here I am following Trigger'sconvention by capitalizing "Marxist"). Although his consideration of the contributionsof Marxists to Western archaeology is generally sympathetic. he is unafraid to criticizewhere he feels it is appropriate. Like McGuire, Trigger offers critical insight on therelationship between Marxist philosophy and archaeology; unlike McGuire, Triggerexplicitly limits his discussion to Western Europe and North America