Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things

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John Wiley & Sons, 8 de mai. de 2012 - 264 páginas
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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Conteúdo

Themes About Things
3
Humans and Things
9
Things Depend on Other Things
40
Things Depend on Humans
64
Entanglement
88
Fittingness
113
The Evolution and Persistence of Things
138
Evolution and Entanglement
147
Sequencing Entanglements at Çatalhöyük
189
Sequencing Entanglements the Origins of Agriculture
195
Conclusion
204
10
206
Too Much Stuff?
210
Bibliography
223
17
225
18
235

Conclusion
156
Is there a Directionality to Entanglements?
167
Why Do Entanglements Increase the Rate of Change?
174
Tanglegrams
180
34
242
Index
245
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Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things
Ian Hodder
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Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things
Ian Hodder
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Sobre o autor (2012)

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.

Informações bibliográficas

TítuloEntangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things
AutorIan Hodder
Ediçãoilustrada
EditoraJohn Wiley & Sons, 2012
ISBN0470672110, 9780470672112
Num. págs.264 páginas
  
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