Meskell Archaeologies of Materiality

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5022-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Drawing on social theory and offering numerous case studies,Archaeologies of Materiality is one of the first books toexplore materiality across time and space.
* * Demonstrates the saliency of materiality by linking it toconcepts of landscape, technology, embodiment, ritual, andheritage.
* Offers archaeological case studies ranging from prehistoric tocontemporary contexts, from Neo-Assyria, South Africa, Argentina,Panama, and the United States.
* Explores the idea of a material universe that is sociallyconceived and constructed, but that also shapes human experience indaily practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meskell, Lynn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures.
Acknowledgments.
Notes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: Object Orientations: Lynn Meskell.
2. Mastering Matters: Magical Sense and the Apotropaic FigureWorlds: Carolyn Nakamura.
3. The Social life of Rocks: Lindsay Weiss.
4. With a Hint of Paris in the Mouth: Fetishized Toothbrushes orthe Sensuous Experience of Modernity in Late 19th-CenturyBogotá: Felipe Gaitán.
5. Faith in Objects: American Indian Object Lessons at the Worldin Boston: Erin Hasinoff.
6. The Texture of Things: Objects, People, and Social Spaces inArgentine Prehistory: Marisa Lazzari.
7. Building an Architecture of Power: Electricity in Annapolis,Maryland: Matt Palus.
8. Materiality vs. the Volcano: The Hitherto UnthinkableWildness of the Volcán Barú, Panamá: KarenHolmberg.
Afterword: Daniel Miller.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Meskell (Ph.D. University of Cambridge) is Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the founding editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology and has published numerous articles and books including Archaeology under Fire (ed. 1998), Archaeologies of Social Life (Blackwell 1999), Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt (2001), Embodied Lives: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience (with Rosemary Joyce, 2003), Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present (2004), Companion to Social Archaeology (ed. with Robert Preucel, Blackwell 2004), and Embedding Ethics (ed. with Peter Pels, 2005).