In this probing study, Severin Fowles undertakes a sustained critique of religion as an analytical category in archaeological research.
In this probing study, Severin Fowles undertakes a sustained critique of religion as an analytical category in archaeological research. Building from a careful dissection of the relationship between secularism, premodernity, and archaeology, Fowles explores what is at stake in our reconstructions of an enchanted past. In doing so, he offers a detailed examination of the case of Ancestral Pueblo society in the American Southwest, widely regarded as a native tradition that was consumed with religious ritual.
