ISBN: 9780199215454

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 … More...

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 inhuman thought? Surprisingly, material culture research tends also to focus on individual artefacts. But objects rarely stand independently from one another they are interconnected in complex constellations. This innovative volume asserts that it is such ''networks of objects'' that instill objectswith their power, enabling them to evoke distant times and places for both individuals and communities. Using archaeological case studies from the Bronze Age of Greece throughout, Knappett develops a long-term, archaeological angle on the development of object networks in human societies. He explores the benefits such networks create for human interaction across scales, and the challenges faced byancient societies in balancing these benefits against their costs. In objectifying and controlling artefacts in networks, human communities can lose track of the recalcitrant pull that artefacts exercise. Materials do not always do as they are asked. We never fully understand all their aspects. Thiswe grasp in our everyday, unconscious working in the phenomenal world, but overlook in our network thinking. And this failure to attend to things and give them their due can lead to societal ''disorientation''. | An Archaeology of Interaction by Carl Knappett Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History > Archaeology P10103, Carl Knappett<

2011, ISBN: 9780199215454

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2011-10-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 60 b/w in text, 1.26 kg, Sozialwissens… More...

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2011-10-15T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, Hersteller-Nr.: 60 b/w in text, 1.26 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Antike, Geschichte, Gesellschaft & Individuum, Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbücher, Schule & Lernen, Archäologie, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Vor- & Frühgeschichte, Epochen, Politik & Geschichte, Allgemein, Klassische Antike, Griechenland, Geschichte allgemein, Allgemeines, Geburt, Frauen, Gesundheit & Medizin, Ratgeber, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Featured Categories, Englische Bücher, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_2301, 7c9a6c79-19ea-4dea-90da-d7d47042d341_0, Arborist Merchandising Root, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_4901, acc906d0-2585-4921-a56f-3ff277850936_0, Special Features Stores, Format: Illustriert, Oxford University Press, 2011<

2011, ISBN: 9780199215454

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2011-08-31T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 60 b/w in text, 1.21 kg, Sozialwissens… More...

Oxford University Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, Auflage: Illustrated, 264 Seiten, Publiziert: 2011-08-31T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: 60 b/w in text, 1.21 kg, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Antike, Geschichte, Gesellschaft & Individuum, Lexika, Hand- & Jahrbücher, Schule & Lernen, Archäologie, Naturwissenschaften & Technik, Vor- & Frühgeschichte, Epochen, Politik & Geschichte, Allgemein, Klassische Antike, Griechenland, Geschichte allgemein, Allgemeines, Geburt, Frauen, Gesundheit & Medizin, Ratgeber, Format: Illustriert, Oxford University Press, 2011<

ISBN: 9780199215454

Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network quality of human-artefact interactions, and examines the ways in which so… More...

Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network quality of human-artefact interactions, and examines the ways in which societies have succeeded or failed in counterbalancing their costs and benefits.; Social Sciences, OUP Oxford<