In defence of the ‘Natural Attitude’:: charting a return from the madness of interpretation.

Author:
Webster, David
Abstract:
A critique of post-processual thinking, interpretation and hermeneutics, from the perspective of the theory of 'natural attitude'. Argues that post-processual archaeology is actually contained within the horizon of processualism while only feigning to be a more critical approach to the past and that it has an exaggerated and ill examined sense of the worth and utility of non-archaeologically indigenous theorising. There is a response from Julian Thomas, with a further comment from the author. Bath, Robert
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BIAB
Classifications:
1A
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Title
A return from madness or a retreat into Cartesianism?: A reply to Webster
Authors: Julian Thomas
Year: 2001
Dataset: BIAB
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