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Materiality And Social Practice
Joseph Maran
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Description for Materiality And Social Practice
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Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects. Adopting a transcultural approach forces us to change archaeology's approach towards items coming from the outside. By using them mostly for reconstructing systems of exchange or for chronology, archaeology has for a long time reduced them to their properties as objects and as being foreign. This volume explores the notion that the significance ... Read more
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects. Adopting a transcultural approach forces us to change archaeology's approach towards items coming from the outside. By using them mostly for reconstructing systems of exchange or for chronology, archaeology has for a long time reduced them to their properties as objects and as being foreign. This volume explores the notion that the significance ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782975410
SKU
V9781782975410
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About Joseph Maran
Joseph Maran is Professor of pre- and protohistory at Heidelberg University and co-director of the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’. His research interests relate to issues of interculturality and changing lifeworlds, relationships between architecture and social practice and between material culture and social memory in societies of the 4th–2nd millennia BC in the ... Read more
Reviews for Materiality And Social Practice
The volume represents well various broad theoretical trends that have swept archaeology generally,over the last few decades, and Mediterranean prehistory only recently. The chapters are dense,but thought-provoking, and largely of high quality.
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