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Title

Rethinking materiality : the engagement of mind with the material world / edited by Elizabeth DeMarrais, Chris Gosden & Colin Renfrew.

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. : McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research : Oxford ; Oakville, Conn. : Distributed by Oxbow Books, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• DeMarrais, Elizabeth, 1964-
• Gosden, Chris, 1955-
• McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
• Renfrew, Colin, 1937-

Description

viii, 280 p. : ill., maps; 29 cm.

Series Statement

McDonald Institute monographs, 1363-1349

Uniform Title

McDonald Institute monographs.

Subject

• Archaeology and art > Congresses
• Cognition and culture > Congresses
• Material culture > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Revised papers from a conference held March 2003 at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The materialization of culture / Elizabeth DeMarrais -- Towards a theory of material engagement / Colin Renfrew -- Aesthetics, intelligence and emotions : implications for archaeology / Chris Gosden -- The affordances of things : a post-Gibsonian perspective on the relationality of mind and metter / Carl Knappett -- The cognitive basis of material engagement : where brain, body and culture conflate / Lambros Malafouris -- Mind over matter? Collapsing the mind-matter dichotomy in material culture studies / Nicole Boivin -- An ongoing outcome, a surrounding world : materiality, agency and history / Manuel A. Arroyo-Kalin -- Materiality and symbolic force : a Palaeolithic view of sedentism / Clive Gamble -- Architecture and "theatres of memory" in the Neolithic of Southwest Asia / Trevor Watkins -- Domestication, sedentism, property and time : materiality and the beginnings of agriculture in Northern Europe / Richard Bradley -- Tangible materiality and cosmological others in the development of sedentism / Mary W. Helms -- The extended artefact and the monumental economy : a methodology for material agency / John Robb -- Displaying the stones : the materiality of "megalithic" monuments / Chris Scarre.
• Culture matters : why symbolic objects change / Timothy Earle -- Matter and memory : colour, remembrance and the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition / Andy Jones -- Institutions and material culture in Bronze Age Europe : towards an intercontextual archaeology / Kristian Kristiansen -- The materiality of sacred power / Michael Rowlands -- The birth of mesoamerican metaphysics : sedentism, engagement, and moral superiority / John E. Clark -- Materiality, feasts, and figured worlds in Aztec Mexico / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel -- Materials and metaphors of sovereignty in central Madagascar / Susan Kus & Victor Raharijaona -- Divine things / Lynn Meskell -- Violence into order : materiality and sacred power in ancient Iraq / David Wengrow -- Thoughts about rethinking materiality / George L. Cowgill.

ISBN

• 1902937309
• 9781902937304

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