The Influence of Randy McGuire on British Archaeology

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.

Over the course of his career, Randy McGuire has been one of the most cogent advocates for a Marxist archaeology, while engaging in positive debates with other theoretical traditions. This advocacy has been conducted at a theoretical and a practical level, while maintaining a position that archaeology itself represents a political practice. For this reason, his work has proved influential outside of the US. In this contribution I will attempt to evaluate the impact of his ideas on both historic and prehistoric archaeology in the UK.

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): 50322