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Thinking Through Material Culture : An Interdisciplinary Perspective /

Material culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material culture, although this is now beginning to change, with material culture recently emerging as a topi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Knappett, Carl (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
Colección:Archaeology, Culture, and Society
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: Thinking Through Material Culture
  • 2. Animacy, Agency, and Personhood
  • 3. Cognition, Perception, and Action
  • 4. The Dynamics of Networks
  • 5. Networks of Meaning: A Sociosemiotics of Material Culture
  • 6. Thinking Through: Meaning in Modern Material Culture
  • 7. Archaeological Case Study: Drinking Vessels in Minoan Crete
  • 8. Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index