"doing" agency: Introductory remarks on methodology

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 159-166

  Dobres, Marcia Anne ^a,c   Robb, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Methodology; Middle range interpretive methodologies; Social reproduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 24144480953     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-005-6926-z     Document Type: Article

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