15th October 2010, 02:38 PM
vulpes Wrote:Erm... Gordon Childe was a Marxist and Post-processualism is by definition not one approach but many and thus hard to discredit in entirety, 'it' merely being a reaction to the overly mechanistic, Binfordian, empirical, environmentally deterministic, and uniformitarian approaches that preceded 'it'. As such PP is surely the 'bastard sibling' or child of P.
Ahem, Hodder was a Marxist, Parker-Pearson. Marxist. Tilley. Marxist. Miller. Marxist. I think you'll find Vulpes, that Marxism is the mould around which was bent the subjectism of Post-processualism. And by its very nature of subjectism, lends itself lf to an asortment of theoretical positions but is no stranger to Marxism.
But as you say PP is plurarity of many approaches, it makes it easy to disprove some than others, particularly those where evidence is scant and fairy tales are great.