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
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 atalhyk in Turkey. He has been awarded several awards and honorary degrees. His books include The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of atalhyk, The Archaeological Process (Blackwell), The Domestication of Europe (Blackwell), Symbols in Action and Reading the Past.
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find harmony in materialism
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评分find harmony in materialism
评分迄今为止,个人所见的对于人与物的关系、人类文化变迁认知最为深刻的作品,极具可读性,书中举例很多,理论构建与考古材料的完美结合与阐释。作者hodder不愧是领先时代的考古学家。
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