Chair & Professor at the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, USA.
Project Director of the Catalhoyuk archaeological research and excavation efforts in Turkey.
Research Interests : Post-processual archaeology, material culture; Turkey.
Dr. Hodder has been conducting the excavation of the 9000 year-old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey to explore the effects of antipositivistic approaches on method in archaeology. His future work will further examine the processes by which people construct an object world which in turn comes to construct their own identities and understandings of the world.
Selected Publications : “The Present in the Past” (London, 1982)
“The Domestication of Europe” (Oxford, 1990)
“Theory and Practice in Archaeology” (London, 1992).
Professor Hodder is continuing his research into archaeological theory and is currently editing a volume on Archaeological Theory Today (Polity Press).
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