Oliver J. T. Harris

Assembling Past Worlds (eBook, ePUB)

Materials, Bodies and Architecture in Neolithic Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Assembling Past Worlds draws on new materialism and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to explore the potential for a posthumanist archaeology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000393088
• Artikelnr.: 61437111

Autorenporträt

Oliver J.T. Harris is Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. He is co-author of Archaeological Theory in the New Millennium (Routledge) and Archaeological Theory in Dialogue (Routledge). He researches new materialist, posthumanist and Deleuzian approaches to the past, applying them particularly, but not exclusively, to the Neolithic. He is co-director of the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project, which excavates sites across multiple periods on the west coast of Scotland

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Assembling a Posthumanist Archaeology; 1. Assembling Past Worlds: An Introduction; 2. Seven Challenges for a Posthumanist Archaeology; 3. Fragments from Philosophy; Part II: Assembling Neolithic Britain; 4. What Were Neolithic Materials Capable of Becoming?; 5. What Could a Dead Neolithic Body Do?; 6. What Worlds did Neolithic Architecture Create?; Part III: Assembling Past Worlds; 7. Time, History and Memory: Towards an Ontography of the Neolithic; 8. Conclusion