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Contents. Life Born in (now part of ), Trigger received a doctorate in archaeology from in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of early cultures. He spent the following year teaching at and then took a position with the Department of Anthropology at in, and remained there for the rest of his career. Contributions Ethnohistory He was arguably best known for The Children of Aataentsic, his two-volume study of the, a work which remains the definitive study on the history and ethnography of that people.
The Children of Aataentsic earned Trigger numerous accolades, including adoption by the as an honorary member. Trigger would later reiterate some of the key arguments of the book in Natives and Newcomers, a work aimed at educating laypeople. In Natives and Newcomers Trigger, writing in the tradition of, argued that the colonial and Aboriginal societies of early Canada all possessed rich and complex social and cultural systems, and that there are no grounds to argue that any society of early Canada was superior to the others. History of archaeology Trigger's book A History of Archaeological Thought investigates the development of theory and archaeology as a discipline. A second and expanded edition was published in 2006.
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Archaeological theory In Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study Trigger uses an integrated theoretical approach to look at the meaning of similarities and differences in the formation of complex societies in and, of China, and Classic of Mesoamerica, of the Andes, and of Africa. In 2004 a session at the (SAA) conference was dedicated to the research of Bruce Trigger. Trigger also made significant contributions to theory and debates on issues within archaeology. The 2003 book 'Artifacts and Ideas' is a collection of previously published papers that trace the history and development of these contributions. In particular were his arguments about how the social and political contexts of research affect archaeological interpretation. One essay entitled 'Archaeology and the Image of the American Indian' documents how archaeological interpretation reflected and legitimated of Native American peoples and expressed the dominant ideas and interests of Euro-American culture. For example, prior to 1914 stereotypes resulted in a prehistory that saw native cultures as being primitive and inherently static.
It was commonly believed that Native Americans had not undergone any significant developmental changes and that they were incapable of change. It was believed that natives had arrived in the only recently, and this 'fact' explained their alleged lack of cultural development. Some early Euro-American archaeologists explained away the contrary evidence of as the creations of 'more enlightened' non-native peoples who had been exterminated by Native American. These popular beliefs, supported by the claims of early archaeologists, served to legitimate the displacement of native peoples from their homelands., who led the of the myths, not coincidentally also recognized that great injustices had been perpetuated against Native American peoples. Although Trigger recognized that Euro-American political interests tended to influence and distort interpretations of the archaeological record, he also argued that the accumulation of evidence served to correct these distortions. Honours and awards In 1979 Trigger was awarded the.
In 2001, Trigger was made an Officer of the. In 2005, he was made an Officer of the.
A Fellow of the, he won their in 1985. In 1991, he won the Quebec government's. Trigger died of cancer on December 1, 2006. Selected bibliography. History and Settlement in Lower Nubia.
New Haven: Yale University Publications in Anthropology, 1965. The Late Nubian Settlement at Arminna West. New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1965. Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. The Huron: Farmers of the North. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969, revised edition, 1990. The Impact of Europeans on Huronia. Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1969. The Meroitic Funerary Inscriptions from Arminna West.
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New Haven: Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt, 1970. Pendergast) Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1972. The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976.
Nubia Under the Pharaohs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1976. Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978 (U.S.
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Edition New York: Columbia University Press). Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. Northeast, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1978. Time and Traditions: Essays in Archaeological Interpretation. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.
Gordon Childe: Revolutions in Archaeology. London: Thames and Hudson, 1980.
O'Connor, and A.B. Lloyd) Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Natives and Newcomers: Canada's 'Heroic Age' Revisited. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1985. A History of Archaeological Thought.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Early Civilizations: Ancient Egypt in Context. New York: Columbia, 1993. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas vol. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Sociocultural Evolution: Calculation and Contingency.
Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. Artifacts and Ideas: Essays in Archaeology. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003. Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. A History of Archaeological Thought. 2nd ed.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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