PostScript: Doing agency in archaeology

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 365-374

  Joyce, Rosemary A ^a,b   Lopiparo, Jeanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Kroeber Hall #3710 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Power; Structuration; Temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844454627     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-005-8461-3     Document Type: Review

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