The Meanings of things : material culture and symbolic expression
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The Meanings of things : material culture and symbolic expression
(One world archaeology, 6)
Unwin Hyman, 1989
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Discussions from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, Sept. 1986
Includes bibliographies and index
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One of a series of books resulting from the 1986 World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England. The 25 articles by authors from around the world examine some of the following topics: objectivity in interpretation; the "meaning" of archaeological objects; symbolic expression; style; ritual and burial; spatial meanings. A number of the papers use the methods and concepts of semiotics. Hodder has presented the papers in a random order for post-structuralist reasons (ie to avoid imposing his own "meaning" on the diverse papers included in the volume and to encourage readers to construct their own interpretations).
Table of Contents
- The political use of Australian Aboriginal body painting and its archaeological implications, R.Layton
- terracotta worship in fringe Bengal, D.K.Bhattacharya
- iron and beads - male and female symbols of creation, a study of ornament among Booran Oromo, A.Kassam and G.Megersa
- the messages of material behaviour - a preliminary discussion of non-verbal meaning, R.Fletcher
- religious cults and ritual practice among the Mendi people of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, T.Mawe
- sites as texts - an exploration of Mousterian traces, L.J.Botscharow
- style and changing relations between the individual and society, P.Wiessner
- post- modernism, post-structuralism and post-processual archaeology, I.Hodder
- "we the post-megalithic people...", F.Criado
- the diffusion of religious symbols within complex societies, L.Charles Hulin
- social evidence from the interpretation of Middle Minoan figurines, A.Pilali-Papasteriou
- the Priestess figure of Malta, C.Biaggi
- ethno-archaeological cognition and cognitive ethno-archaeology, Z.Kobylinski
- heresy and its traces - the material results of culture, K.Teague
- etics, emics and empathy in archaeological theory, E.M.Melas
- bark capes, arrowheads and Concorde - on social representations of technology, P.Lemonnier
- the artifact as abbreviated act - a social interpretation of material culture, M.Richardson
- the material symbols of the Winnebago sky and earth moieties, R.L.Hall
- interpreting material culture, C.Tilley
- divine kingdoms in northern Africa - material manifestations of social institutions, E.J.Kleppe
- towards an archaeology of thought, W.Davis
- Tusona ideographs - a lesson in interpretive objectivity, G.Kubik
- organizational constraints on tattoo images - a sociological analysis of artistic style, C.R.Saunders
- a semiotic approach in rock-art analysis, A.M.Llamazares
- habitus and social space - some suggestions about meaning in the Saami (Lapp) tent circa 1700-1900, T.Yates.
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