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tyranny of the ethnographic record: a standalone construct

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Archaeology

the problem that archaeologists limit models of the past to forms of behavior that ethnographers happened to record.

In archaeology, tyranny of the ethnographic record refers to the problem that archaeologists limit models of the past to forms of behavior that ethnographers happened to record. This meaning comes from Wobst (1978) in American Antiquity.[1]

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Wobst, H. M. (1978). The Archaeo-Ethnology of Hunter-Gatherers or the Tyranny of the Ethnographic Record in Archaeology. American Antiquity, 43(2), 303-309. https://doi.org/10.2307/279256

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