Rosemary A. Joyce

Sites, Traces, and Materiality (eBook, PDF)

An Alchemy of Medieval Honduras

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040102015
• Artikelnr.: 72247184

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.