Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

✍ Scribed by Carl Knappett

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 212
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Thinking Through Material Culture provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the pivotal role of material culture in human cognition, perception and action.

✦ Table of Contents

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

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