Symbolic and Structural Archaeology - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521035503 ISBN 13: 9780521035507

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Riassunto

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies.

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Descrizione del libro

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology.

Contenuti

List of contributors; Preface; Part I. The Development of Theory: 1. Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view Ian Hodder; 2. Artefacts as products of human categorisation processes D. Miller; 3. Social formation, social structures and social change Christopher Tilley; 4. Epistemological issues raised by a structuralist archaeology M. Alison Wylie; Part II. The Search for Models: 5. Matters material and ideal Susan Kus; 6. House power: Swahili space and symbolic markers Linda Wiley Donley; 7. The interpretation of spatial patterning in settlement residues H. L. Moore; 8. Decoration as ritual symbol: a theoretical proposal and an ethnographic study in southern Sudan Mary Braithwaite; 9. Structures and strategies: an aspect of the relationship between social hierarchy and cultural change D. Miller; 10. Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study Michael Parker Pearson; Part III. Application: The Analysis of Archaeological Materials: 11. Boundedness in art and society Margaret W. Conkey; 12. Ideology, symbolic power and ritual communication: a reinterpretation of Neolithic mortuary practices Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley; 13. Ideology, change and the European Early Bronze Age Stephen Shennan; 14. Sequences of structural change in the Dutch Neolithic Ian Hodder; Part IV. Commentary: Childe's offspring Mark Leone; Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0521035503
• ISBN 13: 9780521035507
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 200
• Redattore: Hodder Ian
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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