The archaeology of contextual meanings
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The archaeology of contextual meanings
(New directions in archaeology)
Cambridge University Press, 2009, c1987
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"This digitally printed version 2009"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This companion volume to Archaeology as Long-term History focuses on the symbolism of artefacts. It seeks at once to refine the theory and method relating to interpretation and show, with examples, how to conduct this sort of archaeological work. Some contributors work with the material culture of modern times or the historic period, areas in which the symbolism of mute artefacts has traditionally been thought most accessible. However, the book also contains a good number of applications in prehistory to demonstrate the feasibility of symbolic interpretation where good contextual data survive from the distant past. In relation to wider debates within the social sciences, the volume is characterised by a concern to place abstract symbolic codes within their historical context and within the contexts of social actions. In this respect, it develops further some of the ideas presented in Dr Hodder's Symbolic and Structural Archaeology, an earlier volume in this series.
Table of Contents
- 1. The contextual analysis of symbolic meanings Ian Hodder
- Part I. Contemporary archaeological studies: 2. Bow ties and pet foods: material culture and the negotiation of change in British industry Ian Hodder
- 3. Iconography, sacred and secular: visions of the family Sheena Crawford
- 4. An 'archae-logy' of Turkana beads Sarah Williams
- Part II. Historical archaeological studies: 5. 'All styles are good, save the tiresome kind.' An examination of the pattern of stylistic changes occurring among silver candlesticks of the eighteenth century (1680-1780) Tony Sinclair
- 6. Purity and power at the Victorian dinner party Robert Jameson
- 7. Material metaphor, social interaction and historical reconstructions: exploring patterns of association and symbolism in the Igbo-Ukwu corpus Keith Ray
- Part III. Prehistoric archaeological studies: 8. Identifying gender representation in the archaeological record: a contextual study Liv Gibbs
- 9. Material order and cultural classification: the role of bronze objects in the transition from Bronze Age to Iron Age in Scandinavia Marie Louise Stig Sorensen
- 10. The inter-relationships of materials and meanings: some suggestions on housing concerns within Iron Age Noord-Holland Linda Therkorn
- 11. Value and motivation in pre-history: the evidence for 'Celtic spirit' Nick Merriman
- 12. Flying stags: icons and power in Thracian art Timothy Taylor.
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