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Thinking through material culture : an interdisciplinary perspective /
"Thinking Through Material Culture argues that, although material culture forms the bedrock of archaeology, the discipline has barely begun to address how fundamental artifacts are to human cognition and perception. This idea of codependency among mind, action, and matter opens the way for a no...
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| Format: | Online Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Archaeology, culture, and society.
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| Access: | http://ezproxy.villanova.edu/login?URL=http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt3fhh6q |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : thinking through material culture
- Animacy, agency, and personhood
- Cognition, perception, and action
- The dynamics of networks
- Networks of meaning : a sociosemiotics of material culture
- Thinking through : meaning in modern material culture
- Archaeological case study : drinking vessels in Minoan Crete.