Built Environments Constructed Societies

Lingua: inglese

Editore: Sidestone Press, 2009

9088900388 / 9789088900389

Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, GermaniaAHA-BUCH GmbH

Venditore con 5 stelle

Venditore AbeBooks dal 14 agosto 2006

Brossura

Condizione: Nuovo

EUR 33,56

EUR 35,00 spedizione 
Spedito da Germania a U.S.A.

Quantità: 1 disponibile

Aggiungi al carrello
Resi gratuiti per 30 giorni

Descrizione dell’articolo da parte del venditore

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda. The topic of social evolution is concealed by anxiety about previous paradigmatic malpractice and the primary archaeological division of the world in culture areas still suffers from the archaic methods by which it was established. Archaeological inference of developing societies is weighed down by its choice of particularism within agency approaches and overtly reductionist due to the prevalence of statistical, classificatory and biological approaches. This book addresses these issues through a perspective on the spatial analysis of the built environment. As one of the principal properties of our dataset, as well as being the first materialisation of sociality, such spatialities are suggested to be a fundamental key for enabling an understanding of the developing social identity of places, regions and areas. In order to arrive at a truly social inference of spatial datasets, archaeology's usual analysis working from material remains towards socio-cultural interpretations needs to be inverted. The vantage point of this study consists of aprioristic social theory. It constructs its arguments through an epistemological foundation comprising a selection of essential ideas regarding the three constitutive axes of developing societies: time, human action and human space. As it recognises the inherent position of these axes combined in the discipline of human geography, a historical comparison of these two disciplines presents the angle from which plausible theoretical advancements can be made. The core of the book explores selected works of human geographers Allan Pred, Benno Werlen and Andreas Koch against the backdrop of theories like structuration or systems theory, phenomenology, action theory, and to a lesser extent Actor Network Theory and autopoiesis. From this follows its own theoretical proposal called the social positioning of spatialities. On this basis hypotheses for methodological opportunities are discussed, establishing a research agenda. Firmly placing its efforts in current paradigmatic debates in the discipline, this study offers archaeological theorists an incentive to leave the safety of materially bound science and adapt an alternative perspective. It is an attempt to put archaeology back in the forefront of the social theoretical debates it should contribute to.…

Codice articolo 9789088900389

Titolo
Built Environments Constructed Societies
Autore
Benjamin N. Vis
Editore
Sidestone Press
Anno di pubblicazione
2009
Condizione
Neu
Rilegatura
Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
9088900388
ISBN 13
9789088900389
Peso dell'articolo
431 grammi
Dimensioni
257x182x13 mm

AHA-BUCH GmbH

Einbeck, Germania

Venditore con 5 stelle

Venditore AbeBooks dal 14 agosto 2006

Tariffe di spedizione da Germania a U.S.A.

ArticoloDa 7 a 10 giorni lavorativiDa 5 a 7 giorni lavorativi
Primo articoloEUR 35,00EUR 45,00
I tempi di consegna sono stabiliti dai venditori e variano in base al corriere e al paese. Gli ordini che devono attraversare una dogana possono subire ritardi e spetta agli acquirenti pagare eventuali tariffe o dazi associati. I venditori possono contattarti in merito ad addebiti aggiuntivi dovuti a eventuali maggiorazioni dei costi di spedizione dei tuoi articoli.

Metodi di pagamento

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Carte Bleue
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Assegno
  • Bonifico bancario
  • PayPal

Descrizione dello Store

Das Unternehmen AHA-BUCH GmbH: Seit der Gründung von AHA-BUCH im Juli 2005 ist unser Hauptziel, zufriedenen Kunden so schnell und so preisgünstig wie möglich ihren Bücherwunsch zu erfüllen. Unsere Firma beschäftigt 16 Mitarbeiter, die nur ein Ziel kennen: den Kunden und seine Wünsche! Auf über 3700 m2 Fläche haben wir über 100.000 Bücher, Modernes Antiquariat und Spiele auf Lager.

Specializzazione

Kinderbücher & Kinderhör Casetten, German Books, Software, Natur & Tiere, Ratgeber, Sachbücher, Englische Bücher, Medizin & Gesundheit, Universität & Studium

Informazioni sull’azienda del venditore

AHA-BUCH GmbH

Garlebsen 48
Einbeck, Germania 37574