Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

Book Overview

Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present. This book examines the complex relations between material culture, social structures and social practices from structuralist, hermeneutical and post-structuralist viewpoints.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631172858
• ISBN13: 9780631172857
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"