Contemporary Issues in Archaeology

Harvard FAS

This course is meant to serve as a follow-up to the primary Method and Theory Course in Archaeology and is designed to help graduate students think through contemporary and theoretical issues in preparation for their General Exams. We will cover major debates in Anglophone literature about archaeology’s role in modern society and its relationship to adjacent disciplines. As graduate students in archaeology are expected to “read broadly”, these readings cover a wide range of lenses through…