Interpretative Archaeology

by: Tilley, Ch.

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Interpretative archaeology

Author: Christopher Y. Tilley

Summary:Archaeology, most of us learned in school, consists in the painstaking digging up and sifting of relics from extinct cultures; hardly an exciting or indeed interesting activity - for most of us. Archaeologists and anthropologists, professional and otherwise, know better. In the buried structures and detritus of ancient cultures can be found a world of knowledge and insight - empirical and theoretical - into their cultures as well as our own. This fascinating volume brings these worlds to life, by integrating recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. It is an exploration of the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provides a series of innovative studies of key areas of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists

Series:
Explorations in anthropology

x, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Contents:
Introduction : interpretation and a poetics of the past / Christopher Tilley
Frameworks for an archaeology of the body / Tim Yates
The hermeneutics of megalithic space / Julian Thomas
Interpreting causewayed enclosures in the past and the present / Mark Edmonds
Monumental choreography : architecture and spatial representation in late Neolithic Orkney / Colin Richards
Space, subjectivity, power and hegemony : megaliths and long mounds in earlier Neolithic Brittany / Trevor Kirk
The axe and the torso : symbolic structures in the Neolithic of Brittany / Julian Thomas and Christopher Tilley
Notes toward an archaeology of capitalism / Matthew Johnson
Discourse, totalization and "the Neolithic" / Julian Thomas
Prospecting archaeology / Christopher Tilley
Digging with the pen : novel archaeologies and literary traditions / Christopher Evans

Subjects:
Archaeology
Archaeology Methodology Philosophy
Archaeology Philosophy
Archäologie
Archeologie
Archéologie
Archéologie Philosophie
Arkeologi (Faget)
Arqueologia
Arqueologia (teoria e metodos)
Arqueologia/pre-historia
Aufsatzsammlung
Interpretation
Theorie
archaeology

Interpretative Archaeology

by: Tilley, Ch.

• ISBN-13: 9780854968503 / 978-0-85496-850-3
• ISBN-03: 0854968504 / 0-85496-850-4
• Berg Publishers, Oxford, 1993

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock