Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.
Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rosemary A. Joyce is Distinguished Professor Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. An archaeologist who has conducted excavations in Honduras for more than thirty years, and a museum anthropologist who has studies collections in museums throughout Europe, North America, and Central America, Joyce is a specialist in the study of ceramics, including vessels and figural sculpture. She has published pathbreaking work on archaeology of sex and gender, and contributions to understanding heritage thinking in both the contemporary world and the past.
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List of figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Materiality, Archaeology, and Medieval Honduras Chapter 2. Flows of Clay Chapter 3. The Animacy of Obsidian Chapter 4. Becoming Marble Chapter 5. Mercurial Copper Chapter 6. Alchemy Revisited References Index.