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标题：Indian Archaeology and Postmodernism: Fashion or Necessity?
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作者：Ajay Pratap
期刊名称：Ancient Asia
印刷版ISSN：2042-5937
出版年度：2014
卷号：5
期号：0
DOI：10.5334/aa.12318
语种：English
出版社：Ubiquity Press
摘要：This paper begins by considering the origins and trajectory of growth of Indian Archaeology, from an Antiquarian stage, through to its present state, which may best be described, positioned between cultural historical, Positivist and Post-positivist approaches. The school of archaeological thought informed by Positivist Philosophy has been called variously as the New Archaeology, Hypothetico-Deductive Archaeology, and more lately as Processual Archaeology (Paddayya, 1990). The school of Indian Archaeology influenced by the Philosophy of Post-positivism or Postmodernism are called variously as the New New Archaeology and Postprocessual Archaeology. This paper traces the growth of Indian Archaeology through its various stages such as Antiquarianism, Indology, Colonial Archaeology, Modern Archaeology, the New Archaeology and now the Postprocessual Archaeology. It seeks to estimate chiefly the impact of the Postprocessual applications in Indian Archaeology.
关键词：archaeology, theory;postmodernism, indian archaeology