Prepare 2 page
(maximum) reaction paper to three reviews of Isbell's Mummies and Mortuary
Monuments: A postprocessual Prehistory of Central Andean Social Organization.
Reviews are by Moseley,Browman, and Bawden. Which do you believe are most
effective as reviews and why? These articles will be posted on blackboard.
- Bawden, G.
(2000) "Burial: The Deus Ex Machina of Social Transformation?" Current
Anthropology 41:145-147.
- Browman, D.
L. (1998) "Review: Mummies and Mortuary Monuments: A Postprocessual
Prehistory of Central Andean Social Organization, by W. H. Isbell. Latin
American Antiquity 9:186-188.
- Moseley, M.
E. (1999) "Preposterism: Oxymorons of Post-Modern Prehistory", The Review of
Archaeology 20(1):1-11.