An Archaeology of Interaction: Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society

by Carl Knappett

Book Overview

Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down the generations - distinctive individual artefacts allow us to think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time. While this makes anecdotal sense, what does scholarship have to say about the role of artefacts in human thought? Surprisingly, material culture research tends also to focus on individual artefacts. But objects rarely stand independently from one another they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199215456
• ISBN13: 9780199215454
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"