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Prickett, Stephen

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“…There has been a tendency for researchers to characterize a typical house (e.g., McCoy 1976;Prickett 1982). Some of the theoretical frameworks developed and used by anthropologists studying cultures around the world lend themselves to this type of study with an emphasis on determining the structuring principles of a society (e.g., Bourdieu 1978;Hodder 1986;Moore 1986).…”

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Household Units in the Analysis of Prehistoric Social Complexity, Cook Islands

Taomia¹

2000

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Polynesian and other Oceanic societies have often informed research into social complexity. McGuire (1983) has proposed a means of measuring complexity that does not assume any particular organizational form. The examination of prehistoric household remains allows archaeologists to compare common units of social organization across societies for more meaningful comparisons of past social organization. This paper discusses house remains excavated on three islands in the Southern Cook Islands of central Polynesia for the information they provide about past social organization on the islands and provides comparison between three closely related island societies.

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Household Units in the Analysis of Prehistoric Social Complexity, Cook Islands

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Narrative, Religion and Science

Prickett

2002

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An increasing number of contemporary scientists, philosophers and theologians downplay their professional authority and describe their work as simply 'telling stories about the world'. If this is so, Stephen Prickett argues, literary criticism can (and should) be applied to all these fields. Such new-found modesty is not necessarily postmodernist scepticism towards all grand narratives, but it often conceals a widespread confusion and naïvety about what 'telling stories', 'description' or 'narrative', actually involves. While postmodernists define 'narrative' in opposition to the experimental 'knowledge' of science (Lyotard), some scientists insist that science is itself story-telling (Gould); certain philosophers and theologians even see all knowledge simply as stories created by language (Rorty; Cupitt). Yet story telling is neither innocent nor empty-handed. Prickett argues that since the eighteenth century there have been only two possible ways of understanding the world: the fundamentalist, and the ironic.

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Introduction: Arthur Dent, Screwtape and the mysteries of story-telling

Prickett¹

2002

Narrative, Religion and Science

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Household Units in the Analysis of Prehistoric Social Complexity, Cook Islands

Household Units in the Analysis of Prehistoric Social Complexity, Cook Islands

Narrative, Religion and Science

Introduction: Arthur Dent, Screwtape and the mysteries of story-telling

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