Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationshipsbetween Humans and Things - Brossura

Hodder, Ian

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0470672129 ISBN 13: 9780470672129

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012

Riassunto

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds

• Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture
• Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism
• Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time
• Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences
• Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory

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Recensione:

The quantity and diversity of Hodder′s readings are simply astonishing. His new conception of material entanglements is going to change the way archaeologists understand their field.
– Norman Yoffee, University of Michigan

Entangled is nothing less than a reframing of archaeological enquiry into things.  It is a fundamental, first–principles rethinking of how archaeologists should understand the world around them.
– Matthew H. Johnson, Northwestern University

"This book is a provocative and exciting contribution to archaeological theory and beyond. Its central thesis is that entanglement is both a condition of being in the world and a process of linking entities together in networks or assemblages.  In charting a course across material, social, and evolutionary domains, it provides a novel way of bridging the Great Divide between the social and natural sciences."
– Bob Preucel, University of Pennsylvania

L'autore:

Ian Hodder is Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Previously he was Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge. His main large-scale excavation projects have been at Haddenham in the east of England and at Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He has been awarded several awards and honorary degrees. His books include The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük, The Archaeological Process (Blackwell), The Domestication of Europe (Blackwell), Symbols in Action and Reading the Past.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0470672129
• ISBN 13: 9780470672129
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272