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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465395203321

Autore

Vis Benjamin N

Titolo

Built environments, constructed societies [[electronic resource] ] : inverted spatial analysis / / Benjamin N. Vis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Sidestone Press, c2009

ISBN

1-299-28190-7

90-8890-131-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (195 p.)

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Social archaeology

Archaeology - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally presented as: Thesis (M.Phil.)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 2009.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-179).

Nota di contenuto

Biographic-calls -- Content-wise -- Subjectivist Objectification -- Chapter 1. Axes of Developing Societies -- Epistemology -- Axis of Time - Absolute Time -- Axis of Time - Social Time -- Axis of Time - Subjective Time -- Axis of Human Action - Disciplined Humanism -- Axis of Human Action - Max Weber -- Axis of Human Action - Ludwig von Mises -- Axis of Human Action - Alfred Schutz -- Axis of Human Action - Michel de Certeau -- Axis of Human Space - Existentialism and Embodiment -- Axis of Human Space - Territoriality and Proxemics -- Axis of Human Space - Built Environment -- Axis of Human Space - Space Syntax -- Chapter 2. Along Disciplinary Lines -- Foundations of Human Geography -- New Geography, New Archaeology -- Present and Future Discource -- Social Evolutionism -- Culture History, Culture Areas -- Chapter 3. Processes of Becoming -- Time-geography and Structuration -- Introducing Allan Pred, Criticising Anthony Giddens -- Place and the Social -- Place beyond Structuration -- Towards Place as Historically Contingent Process -- What about the Built Environment? -- Chapter 4. Theorising towards Datasets -- From Regionalisation and Culture Areas -- Towards Regionalisation and Culture Areas -- Constructing Detailed Systemisation -- Towards Built Environments -- Chapter 5. Theoretical Integration for Datasets -- Some Fundamentals



-- Social Positioning of Spatialities -- Spatial Datasets, Interpretive Issues -- Spatial Features -- Boundaries and the Macro Scale -- Disputation of Potentialities -- Are Things Stirring in Archaeology? -- Basing a Theory -- Building a Theory -- A Methodological Turn -- Concluding Remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda. The topic of social evolution is concealed by anxiety about previous paradigmatic malpractice and the primary archaeological division of the world in culture areas still suffers from the archaic methods by which it was established. Archaeological inference of developing societies is weighed down by its choice of particularism within agency approaches and overtly reductionist due to the prevalence of statistical,