Archaeological Semiotics

by Robert Preucel and Robert W. Preucel

Book Overview

This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology's engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140519913X
• ISBN13: 9781405199131
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"