Arkeologi som vitenskap
*Mithen, S. 2001 Archaeological Theory and the Theories of Cognitive Evolution. I: Archaeological Theory Today, redigert av I. Hodder, s. 98-121. Polity Press, Cambridge. (19 s.)
€ Kristiansen, K. 2004 Genes versus agents. A discussion of the widening theoretical gap in archaeology. Archaeological Dialogues 11, No. 2, 77-99. (22 s.)
€ Veit, U. 2004 “Mission impossible”! Comments on Kristian Kristiansen, “Genes versus agents. A discussion of the widening theoretical gap in archaeology”. Archaeological Dialogues 11, No. 2, 99-103. (4 s.)
*Bintliff, J., 2011 The death of archaeological theory? I: J. Bintliff and M. Pearce, eds. The death of archaeological theory? Oxford: Oxbow Books, 7–22. (16 s).
€ Snekkestad, P. 2011 Darwinistisk arkeologi. Primitive Tider 13: 155-166. (12 s)
€ Fahlander, F., F. Riede, J. Apel & P. Snekkestad 2011 Kommentarer og svar til “Darwinistisk arkeologi”. Primitive Tider 13: 167-185 (18 s)
€ Johnsen, H. & B. Olsen 1992 Hermeneutics and Archaeology. On the philosophy of contextual archaeology American Antiquity 57(3): 419-436 (16 s.)
*Hodder, Ian 2004 The “Social” in Archaeological Theory: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective. In A Companion to Social Archaeology, edited by Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel, s. 23–43. Blackwell, Malden, Mass (15 s).
Materialitet, nettverk, og symmetri
*Olsen, B. 2006 Ting-mennesker-samfunn. Introduksjon til en symmetrisk arkeologi. Arkæologisk Forum 14:13-18. (5 s.)
*Ingold, T. 2008 When ANT meets SPIDER: Social Theory for Arthropods. I: L. Malafouris and C. Knappett (eds.) Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach. New York: Springer. s. 209-216 (7 s.)
*Witmore T. & C.L. Webmoor 2008 Things are Us! A Commentary on Human/Things Relations under the Banner of a ‘Social’ Archaeology. Norwegian Archaeological Review 41 (1): 53-70. (18 s.)
*Boivin, Nicole 2004 Mind over Matter? Collapsing the Mind-Matter Dichotomy in Material Culture Studies. In Rethinking materiality. The engagement of mind with the material world, edited by Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden and Colin Renfrew, pp. 63–71. McDonald institute monographs. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge (10 s.).
*Hodder, Ian 2012 Entangled: an archaeology of the relationships between humans and things. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester: Chapter 1: Thinking about things differently, s. 1-14 (13 s.).
€ Sindbæk, Søren M. 2007 Networks and nodal points: the emergence of towns in early Viking Age Scandinavia. Antiquity 81 (2007): 119–132 (8 s.)
Struktur og handling: Menneske og samfunn
*Giddens, A. 1984 The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration. Polity Press. Cambridge. Utgave 2010. s. 297-304 (The duality of structure) (7 s.)
*Berggren, K. 2000 The Knowledge-Able Agent? On the paradoxes of power. I Philosophy and Archaeological Practice. Perspectives for the 21st Century, redigert av C. Holtorf og H. Karlsson, s. 39-46. Bricoleur Press, Göteborg. (7 s.)
*Dobres, M. A. and J. E. Robb 2000 Agency in Archaeology: Paradigm or platitude? I: Agency in archaeology, redigert av M. A. Dobres og J. E. Robb, s. 3-17. Routledge, London. (12 s.)
*Nygaard, T. 2001 Den lille sosiologiboka. Innføring i sosiologisk handlingsteori. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo. S. 102-146: Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens (45 s.)
*Østerberg, D. 2003 Sosiologiens nøkkelbegreper og deres opprinnelse. Capellen, Oslo. S. 12-17 (6 s.)
*Bourdieu, P. 2006 Strukturer, habitus og praksiser. Agora: Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon 1-2: 53-73 (20 s.)
*Olsen, B. 2006 Scenes from a Troubled Engagement. Post-Structuralism and Material Culture Studies. I Handbook of Material Culture, redigert av C. Tilley, W. Keane, S. Küchler, M. Rowlands, and P. Spyer, s. 85-103. Sage Publishers, London. (19 s.)
*Shennan, S. 2011 Property and wealth inequality as cultural niche construction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Biological Sciences 366: 918-926. (8 s).
€ Pauketat, Timothy R. and Susan M. Alt 2005 Agency in a Postmold? Physicality and the Archaeology of Culture-Making. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12(3):213-236. (21 s.)
€ Kosiba, Steve and Andrew M. Bauer 2013 Mapping the Political Landscape: Toward a GIS Analysis of Environmental and Social Difference. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20(1):61-101 (ca. 22 s.)
Subjekt, kropp og livsverden
*Kyvik, G. 2002 Hjemmeverden, fremmedverden og arkeologisk refleksivitet. Primitive tider 5. s. 127-132 (4 s.)
*Gansum, T., G. B. Jerpåsen, C. Keller 1997 Arkeologisk landskapsanalyse med visuelle metoder. AmS-Varia 28. Arkeologisk museum i Stavanger, Stavanger. Kap. 1, Kap. 2, Kap. 3, Kap. 4, s. 10-22. (10 s.)
€ Brück, J. 2005 Experiencing the past? The development of a phenomenological archaeology in British prehistory Archaeological Dialogues 12 (1): 45–72 (27 s.)
*Thomas, J. 2006 Phenomenology and Material Culture. I Handbook of Material Culture, redigert av C. Tilley, W. Keane, S. Küchler, M. Rowlands, and P. Spyer, s. 43-59. Sage Publishers, London. (12 s.)
€ Hamilakis, Yannis 2008 Time, performance, and the production of a mnemonic record: From feasting to an archaeology of eating and drinking. In DAIS: The Aegean Feast. Proceedings of the 12th International Aegean Conference, University of Melbourne, Centre for Classics and Archaeology, 25-29 March 2008, Vol. 29, edited by Louise A. Hitchcock, Robert Laffineur and Janice Crowly. Aegaeum. Peeters publishers, Leuven. (ca. 13s)
Analogi, biografi og metafor
€ Jones, A. 1998 Where eagles dare: landscape, animals and the Neolithic of Orkney , Journal of Material Culture 3(3): 301-324. (23 s.)
€ Gosden, C. & Y. Marshall 1999 The cultural biography of objects World Archaeology 21(2): 169-178. (9 s.)
*Porr, M. 1999 Archaeology, Analogy, Material Culture, Society: An Exploration. I: Ethno-Analogy and the reconstruction of Prehistoric Artefact Use and Production, redigert av L. Owen og M. Porr. Urgeschichtliche Materialhefte 14. Mo Vince Verlag. Tübingen. S. 3-15 (8 s.)
*Tilley, C. 1999 Metaphor and Material Culture. Oxford: Blackwell s.36-76 (35 s.)
*Goldhahn, J. 2004 Mångtydighetens tydlighet - till frågan om hällbilders mening och innebörd. I: Förhistoriska bilder som arkeologisk källa, redigert av G. Milstreu og H. Prøhl, s. 121-208. Tanums Hällristningsmuseum, Tanumshede. (12 s.)
€ Joy, Jody 2009 Reinvigorating object biography: reproducing the drama of object lives. World Archaeology 41(4):540-556 (11 s.)
Anbefalt litteratur/ bakgrunnslitteratur ARK4040:
Hastrup, K. 1999 Viljen til viden. En humanistisk grundbog. Gyldendal: København.
Olsen, B. 2002 [1997] Fra ting til tekst. Teoretisk perspektiv i arkeologisk forskning. Oslo. Universitetsforlaget. 2. opplag.
Renfrew, C. and Bahn, P. (red.) 2005 Archaeology. The Key Concepts. Routledge Key Guides. Oxon/New York. Routledge.
Aakvaag, G. C. 2010 [2008] Moderne sosiologisk teori. Oslo. Abstrakt forlag AS. 2. opplag.
Hodder, I. 2012 (red.) Archaeological Theory Today. Second Edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Trigger, Bruce 1989 A history of archaeological thought. Cambridge University Press, Cambri