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Title

Interpretative archaeology / edited by Christopher Tilley.

Publication

Providence : Berg, 1993.

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Additional Authors

Tilley, Christopher Y.

Description

x, 454 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.

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 Statement

Explorations in anthropology

Uniform Title

Explorations in anthropology.

Subject

• Archaeology > Philosophy
• Archaeology
• Archaeology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Interpretation and a Poetics of the Past / Christopher Tilley -- 1. Frameworks for an Archaeology of the Body / Tim Yates -- 2. The Hermeneutics of Megalithic Space / Julian Thomas -- 3. Interpreting Causewayed Enclosures in the Past and the Present / Mark Edmonds -- 4. Monumental Choreography: Architecture and Spatial Representation in Late Neolithic Orkney / Colin Richards -- 5. Space, Subjectivity, Power and Hegemony: Megaliths and Long Mounds in Earlier Neolithic Brittany / Trevor Kirk -- 6. The Axe and the Torso: Symbolic Structures in the Neolithic of Brittany / Julian Thomas and Christopher Tilley -- 7. Notes Towards an Archaeology of Capitalism / Matthew Johnson -- 8. Discourse, Totalization and 'The Neolithic' / Julian Thomas -- 9. Prospecting Archaeology / Christopher Tilley -- 10. Digging with the Pen: Novel Archaeologies and Literary Traditions / Christopher Evans.

ISBN

• 0854968423 (cloth)
• 0854968504 (paper)

LCCN

92025568

OCLC

• ocm26263158
• SCSB-14412112

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries