8th October 2010, 10:05 AM
I see where you are coming from but I often find it morally awkward to stand in a field and place my feet in the soles of a Bronze Age chap and see the world through their eyes. My wife, who is a sociologist and academic, finds archaeologists' use of phenomeonology incomprehendible and a blatant misuse. Anthroplogist friends share the same view. Tilley has a lot to answer for not unless he's invented a consciousness timemachine.