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Many of the theories that inspire agency approaches in archaeology identify deep philosophical problems with other lines of thought. This creates challenges for identifying methods: do radical theories require radical methods? Choosing as a case study one of agency's interpretive frameworks (embodiment) and, further, a single class of evidence (anthropomorphic imagery), I argue that the answer is "no." In this case, familiar art historical methods, deliberately played off one against the other, provide a middle range framework for linking theory and evidence.Archaeologists interested in human agency have searched for theoretical approaches to people as thinking, feeling, acting subjects. Of particular interest are nuanced formulations of the complex interplay between agency and structurebetween people as creative, strategizing subjects and those forces that shape, constrain, and even constitute their subjectivities. The human body is a recurring theme in such formulations, particularly the notion that agency and subjectivity do not float freely in discursive awareness but are instead more deeply embodied. The works of mid-to-late twentieth-century theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Paul Connerton, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty have been influential in the development of theories of embodiment, as have those of some more recent gender theorists, particularly Judith Butler (for overviews see Shilling, 1993; Strathern, 1996;Breen and Blumenfeld, 2005).Locating subjectivity in the body raises hopes for overcoming tenacious dichotomies-mind-vs.-body, thought-vs.-action, reason-vs.-emotion-that
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