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Socio-Politics and the Woman-at-Home Ideology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Joan M. Gero
Joan M. Gero*
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Department of Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208
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Archaeologists, as explorers and discoverers, have maintained the myth of objective research far longer than have researchers in other social science disciplines. Focused on action, the “cowboys of science” (Alaskan bumper sticker 1981) have dabbled little in self-reflective criticism.

Now at 50, however, the discipline is becoming aware that our notions of the past, our epistemologies, our research emphases, the methods we employ in our research, and the interpretations we bring to and distill from our investigations, are far from value-neutral.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 342 - 350
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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