Artefacts as Categories: A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India

by Daniel Miller

Book Overview

The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Dr Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the pottery produced in a single village in central India, drawing together and analysing a whole range of aspects - technology, function, design, symbolism and ideology - that are usually studied separately. Using the concepts of 'pragmatics', 'framing' and 'ideology', the author...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521104793
• ISBN13: 9780521104791
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"