A Marxist Archaeologist

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Praxis Makes Perfect: Celebrating the Academic Life and Times of Randy McGuire" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Interpretive frameworks in archaeology over the last four decades have significantly benefitted from engagements with Marxian theory. One of the chief proponents of these engagements, obviously, has been Randall McGuire. Given his prolific and widely respected scholarship about a great range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues McGuire is one of just a small handful of American scholars who could have written A Marxist Archaeology and have its fundamental messages stick. This presentation acknowledges the debt of gratitude owed to a passionate, dedicated scholar who significantly influenced the work of peers, junior colleagues, and students over the last 40 years. Through his original work and inspiration of others McGuire made archaeology a much more interesting, and much better, practice.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Praxis Makes Perfect: Celebrating the Academic Life and Times of Randy McGuire

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Abstract Id(s): 50311