The Meanings of Things

Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
Herausgeber: Hodder, Ian

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Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9781138174283
• ISBN-10: 1138174289
• Artikelnr.: 44973540

Autorenporträt

I. Hodder

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Foreword, P. Ucko; Preface, Ian Hodder. The political
use of Australian Aboriginal body painting and its archaeological
implications, Robert 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, Aneesa Kassam & Gemetchu Megersa; The
messages of material behaviour: A preliminary discussion of non-verbal
meaning; Roland Fletcher; Religious cults and ritual practice among the
Mendi people of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea,
Theodore Mawe; Sites as texts: An exploration of Mousterian traces, Lucy
Jayne Botscharow; Style and changing relations between the individual and
society, Polly Wiessner; Post- modernism, post-structuralism and
post-processual archaeology, Ian Hodder; 'We, the post-megalithic
people...', Felipe Criado; The diffusion of religious symbols within
complex societies, L. Charles Hulin; Social evidence from the
interpretation of Middle Minoan figurines, Angeliki Pilali-Papasteriou; The
Priestess Figure of Malta, Christina Biaggi; Ethno-archaeological cognition
and cognitive ethno-archaeology, Zbigniew Kobylinski; Heresy and its
traces: The material results of culture, E. Melas; Bark capes, arrowheads
and Concorde: On social representations of technology, Pierre Lemonnier;
The artefact as abbreviated act: A social interpretation of material
culture, Miles Richardson; The material symbols of the Winnebago sky and
Earth moieties, Robert Hall; Interpreting material culture, Christopher
Tilley; Divine kingdoms in northern Africa: Material manifestations of
social institutions, Else Johansen Kleppe; Towards and archaeology of
thought, Whitney Davis; Tusona ideographs - a lesson in interpretive
objectivity, Gerhard Kubik; Organizational constraints on tattoo images: A
sociological analysis of artistic style, Clinton Sanders; A semiotic
approach in rock-art analysis, Ana Maria Llamarzares; Habitus and social
space: Some suggestions about meaning in the Saami (Lapp) tent ca.
1700-1900, Timothy Yates; Index