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Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past: The View from Southern Maryland. Julia King. 2012. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville 272 pp. $57.00 (cloth), ISBN-1-57233-851-2

rhetoric struggles to invest the concrete object with some presence that is not reducible to objective materiality or humans' projected social symbolism. The book's framing concept, that things and humans are embedded in interacting relationships, is largely independent of any specific theoretical framework, so Entangled aspires to be a work of hybridized theories that revolve around how human and things are linked. Hodder's notion of entanglement perhaps should not be characterized as a theory or a method as much as an ontological framework for defining archaeology's fundamental focus and for interpreting human materiality. The book can be circumspectly labeled post-processual in its aversion to grand theory and potentially reifying concepts like culture; however, at the same time, it assertively revolves around conventional material analysis and tempers its potentially radical vision of things with measured science.