BOOK COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- AN INTRODUCTION -- 1 A SEARCH FOR SOURCES -- 2 CITIES AND SANCTUARIES, ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- A HISTORY OF POTTERY STUDIES -- TYPOLOGY AND CLASSIFICATION -- ART AND JUDGEMENTS OF STYLE -- POTTERY AND THE CONNOISSEURS -- INTERLUDE: SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE DOCTOR WATSON AND JOHN BEAZLEY -- ICONOGRAPHERS AND ICONOLOGISTS -- IMPERIAL COLLECTIONS AND THE BIG DIGS -- ANCIENT HISTORY, THE HISTORICAL EVENT AND DESCRIPTIVE NARRATIVE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 3 GREEK MYTHS AND METANARRATIVES -- COLLECTORS AND ANTIQUARIANS -- TRAVELLERS -- JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN AND GREEK ART -- CONSTITUTING THE ART OBJECT -- VICKERS AND GILL AND THE CRITIQUE OF CERAMIC ART -- TASTE AND THE GREEK -- GERMAN ACADEMICS AND THE IDEALISATION OF GREECE -- CLASSICISM, ROMANTICISM AND NEO-CLASSICISM -- Romanticism -- Neo-Classicism -- TOURISM -- MODERN GREEKS INTO THE PAST -- HELLENISM AND CULTURAL POLITICS -- ANTHROPOLOGY AND EUROPEAN ORIGINS -- ORIENTALISM AND BERNAL'S CRITIQUE OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE GREEK -- CONCLUDING POINTS -- 4 SCHOLARSHIP AND DISCOURSE -- INTRODUCTION -- TYPES OF TEXT -- COMMUNITIES AND INSTITUTIONS -- MAVERICKS -- DISCOURSE -- INTERLUDE: CLASSICAL RHETORIC-A THEORY OF DISCOURSE -- IAN MORRIS AND 'POSTMODERNIST CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY' -- TECHNOLOGIES OF CULTURAL PRODUCTION: RHETORIC, WINNING FRIENDS AND TRUST -- THE WRITING OF HISTORY -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 5 RUDIMENTS OF A SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY -- THE SOURCES -- IDEOLOGIES OF ARCHAEOLOGY -- COMMENTARY AND CRITIQUE: OBJECTS AND THE CHARACTER OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION -- THE NEED FOR A SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLASSICAL GREECE -- APPROACHES TO SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY -- POTTERY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT -- THE SNODGRASS SCHOOL OF IRON AGE STUDIES.

Anthony Snodgrass and the Greek city state: soft Processual archaeology -- Quantitative Processual archaeology: lan Morris and Attic burial practices -- Pottery and politics -- The functions of artistic style -- PROCESSUAL CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY: SOME SUMMARY POINTS -- THE CATEGORY OF THE DECORATIVE: ON MEANING AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- JOHN BERGER, PETER FULLER AND LESSONS OF IDEALIST ART HISTORY -- UNDERSTANDING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND A PREHISTORY OF THE CLASSICAL PAST -- 6 SOME TOPICS AND ISSUES IN A SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF CLASSICAL GREECE -- CHRONOLOGY AND TIME -- ECONOMIC PREHISTORY/ARCHAEOLOGY -- SOCIAL CONNECTIONS -- UNDERSTANDING STYLE -- RELIGION AND RITUAL -- SPACE, SURVEY AND LANDSCAPE -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- 7 ARCHAEOLOGY, CLASSICS AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE -- NIETZSCHE AND THE CLASSICS -- NIETZSCHE AND EFFECTIVE HISTORY -- ARCHAEOLOGICAL ROLES: VITAL HISTORIES FOR THE PRESENT -- ACTUALITY: THE TIME OF ARCHAEOLOGY -- CLASSICAL HERITAGE AND CONSUMING INTERESTS -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SUGGESTED FURTHER READING -- AN INTRODUCTION -- 1 A SEARCH FOR SOURCES -- 2 CITIES AND SANCTUARIES, ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY -- 3 ROOTS IN THE PAST: GREEK MYTHS AND METANARRATIVES -- 4 SCHOLARSHIP AND DISCOURSE -- 5 RUDIMENTS OF A SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY -- 6 SOME TOPICS AND ISSUES -- 7 ARCHAEOLOGY, CLASSICS AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE -- INDEX.