The archaeological sensibility as pragmatic sensibility: mediation

Introduction: epistemology and archaeology – disinvestiture of a modernist inheritance

(Hyper)Pluralism in the discipline, a case of epistemic dispersion

Epistemic settlements: 'relative objectivity'

Epistemic settlements: 'partial and contingent objectivity'

Epistemic settlements: 'guarded objectivity'

Epistemic settlements: ‘mitigated objectivism’

Dispelling representation - the pragmatic sensibility

Dispelling representation - mediation as practice

Chapter 3 conclusions


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Containments

Return to Chapter 2: The spell of representation in archaeological reasoning