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Thinking through material culture : an interdisciplinary perspective
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ISBN: 0812237889 9780812237887 9786613211798 1283211793 081220249X Year: 2005 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Material culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material culture, although this is now beginning to change, with material culture recently emerging as a topic in its own right within the social sciences. Carl Knappett seeks to contribute to this emergent field by adopting a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach that is rooted in archaeology and integrates anthropology, sociology, art history, semiotics, psychology, and cognitive science. His thesis is that humans both act and think through material culture; ways of knowing and ways of doing are ingrained within even the most mundane of objects. This requires that we adopt a relational perspective on material artifacts and human agents, as a means of characterizing their complex interdependencies. In order to illustrate the networks of meaning that result, Knappett discusses examples ranging from prehistoric Aegean ceramics to Zande hunting nets and contemporary art.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 novel and dynamic approach to all of material culture, both past and present.


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An archaeology of interaction : network perspectives on material culture and society
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ISBN: 9780199215454 0199215456 9780198706939 0198706936 0191804223 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press


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Network analysis in archaeology
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ISBN: 9780199697090 0199697094 0191745308 0191626120 1299453961 9780191626128 9780191745300 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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This volume provides a coherent framework on network analysis in current archaeological practice by pulling together its main themes and approaches to show how it is changing the way archaeologists face the key questions of regional interaction.


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Aegean Bronze Age art
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ISBN: 9781108429436 1108429432 9781108452830 1108452833 9781108554695 1108671942 1108587356 1108554695 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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How do we interpret ancient art created before written texts? Scholars usually put ancient art into conversation with ancient texts in order to interpret its meaning. But for earlier periods without texts, such as in the Bronze Age Aegean, this method is redundant. Using cutting-edge theory from art history, archaeology, and anthropology, Carl Knappett offers a new approach to this problem by identifying distinct actions - such as modelling, combining, and imprinting - whereby meaning is scaffolded through the materials themselves. By showing how these actions work in the context of specific bodies of material, Knappett brings to life the fascinating art of Minoan Crete and surrounding areas in novel ways. With a special focus on how creativity manifests itself in these processes, he makes an argument for not just how creativity emerges through specific material engagements but also why creativity might be especially valued at particular moments.


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Thinking Through Material Culture
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ISBN: 9780812202496 Year: 2010 Publisher: Philadelphia

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Aegean Bronze Age art : meaning in the making
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ISBN: 9781108554695 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Material agency : towards a non-anthropocentric approach
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ISBN: 9780387747101 9780387747118 0387747109 1441945121 9786611954024 1281954020 0387747117 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Springer

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Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors. Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely human attribute, and a means of incorporating individual intentionality into theoretical discourse. In other domains, however, notions of non-human and ‘material’ agency have been finding currency, and it is our aim to introduce some of these themes into archaeology and develop a non-anthropocentric approach to agency. It is anticipated that such a perspective will not only help us achieve more convincing interpretations of the past, giving a more active role to material culture, but also throw new light on the changing role of artifacts in the present and the future. This book is a groundbreaking attempt to address questions of non-human and material agency from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines: archaeology, anthropology, sociology, cognitive science, philosophy, and economics. The editors and authors demonstrate that a distributed, relational approach to agency, incorporating both humans and artifacts, has important ramifications for how we understand material culture.


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Human mobility and technological transfer in the prehistoric Mediterranean
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ISBN: 9781107142435 9781316536063 9781316509043 1107142431 1316799646 131679928X 1316799190 1316536068 1316509044 1316799379 1316799468 1316799735 1316798658 9781316799468 9781316799734 9781316799642 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The diverse forms of regional connectivity in the ancient world have recently become an important focus for those interested in the deep history of globalisation. This volume represents a significant contribution to this new trend as it engages thematically with a wide range of connectivities in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean, from the later Neolithic of northern Greece to the Levantine Iron Age, and with diverse forms of materiality, from pottery and metal to stone and glass. With theoretical overviews from leading thinkers in prehistoric mobilities, and commentaries from top specialists in neighbouring domains, the volume integrates detailed case studies within a comparative framework. The result is a thorough treatment of many of the key issues of regional interaction and technological diversity facing archaeologists working across diverse places and periods. As this book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory, it will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- Prehistoric peoples --- Human beings --- Migration, Internal --- Technology transfer --- Material culture --- Regionalism --- Social archaeology --- Homme préhistorique --- Archéologie sociale --- Migrations --- History. --- Mediterranean Region --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquities. --- Relations. --- Antiquités --- Relations --- Migrations intérieures --- Transfert de technologie --- Culture matérielle --- History --- Antiquities --- Homme préhistorique --- Migrations intérieures --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie sociale --- Méditerranée, Région de la --- Antiquités --- Prehistoric peoples - Mediterranean Region --- Migration, Internal - Mediterranean Region - History --- Technology transfer - Mediterranean Region - History --- Mediterranean Region - Antiquities --- Mediterranean Region - Relations --- Archaeology --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Technological transfer --- Transfer of technology --- Diffusion of innovations --- Inventions --- Research, Industrial --- Technology and international relations --- Foreign licensing agreements --- Technological forecasting --- Technological innovations --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Homo sapiens --- Human race --- Humanity (Human beings) --- Humankind --- Humans --- Man --- Mankind --- People --- Hominids --- Persons --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Primitive societies --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Methodology --- International cooperation --- Circum-Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Area --- Mediterranean countries --- Mediterranean Sea Region


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Minoan architecture and urbanism : new perspectives on an ancient built environment
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ISBN: 0198793626 9780198793625 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Minoan Crete is rightly famous for its idiosyncratic architecture, as well as its palaces and towns such as Knossos, Malia, Gournia, and Palaikastro. Indeed, these are often described as the first urban settlements of Bronze Age Europe. However, we still know relatively little about the dynamics of these early urban centres. How did they work? What role did the palaces have in their towns, and the towns in their landscapes? It might seem that with such richly documented architectural remains these questions would have been answered long ago. Yet, analysis has mostly found itself confined to building materials and techniques, basic formal descriptions, and functional evaluations. Critical evaluation of these data as constituting a dynamic built environment has thus been slow in coming. This volume aims to provide a first step in this direction. It brings together international scholars whose research focuses on Minoan architecture and urbanism as well as on theory and methods in spatial analyses. By combining methodological contributions with detailed case studies across the different scales of buildings, settlements and regions, the volume proposes a new analytical and interpretive framework for addressing the complex dynamics of the Minoan built environment.


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Maritime networks in the ancient Mediterranean world
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ISBN: 9781108429948 9781108555685 9781108454971 1108429947 1108555683 1108609090 1108688802 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This volume brings together scholars of Mediterranean archaeology, ancient history, and complexity science to advance theoretical approaches and analytical tools for studying maritime connectivity. For the coast-hugging populations of the ancient Mediterranean, mobility and exchange depended on a distinct environment and technological parameters that created diverse challenges and opportunities, making the modeling of maritime interaction a paramount concern for understanding cultural interaction more generally. Network-inspired metaphors have long been employed in discussions of this interaction, but increasing theoretical sophistication and advances in formal network analysis now offer opportunities to refine and test the dominant paradigm of connectivity. Extending from prehistory into the Byzantine period, the case studies here reveal the potential of such network approaches. Collectively they explore the social, economic, religious, and political structures that guided Mediterranean interaction across maritime space.

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