I thnk that there is much in what both Cornelius and Louise have said. In many ways we are now in a period of archaeological practice -- where the focus is upon doing archaeology (whether in a commercial or academic context). There is a certain amount of 'mixing and matching' going on, whether consciously or not, in the seartch for appropriate theoretical models to be applied, and my feeling is that although processualism is the 'norm' in most of the Anglophone world at least, there are nevertheless experiments in post-processualism in both the commercial and academic spheres. For what it is worth, I think this may be a bit healthier than the ideological warfare of the late 80s and early 90s!
Where I think developments in new theory formulation are taking place is in the area of 'heritage' or 'public' or 'community' archaeologies, a branch of the discipline until recently often considered either a-theoretical or simply beyond theory. It is a vibrant and growing area, academically and otherwise. Those who seek for 'what comes after post-processualism' will find it there.
All best
John
Dr John Carman
Birmingham University Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Heritage Valuation
Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity
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University of Birmingham
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Sent: 03 June 2007 18:30
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Subject: "What comes after Post-processualism???"
Are there any takers for a discussion I just started on ARCHAEOLOG, entitled "What comes after Post-processualism???"?
Read more here: http://traumwerk.stanford.edu/archaeolog/
(I am trying to promote an important and timely debate here and hope that many will disagree with what I wrote!!)
Cornelius
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Cornelius Holtorf
* from January 2008: Högskolan i Kalmar *
Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens historia, Lunds universitet
http://web.comhem.se/cornelius
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