03069nam 2200625 a 450 991014331930332120170815121449.01-281-21503-197866112150330-470-76374-40-470-77405-31-4051-5022-X(CKB)1000000000341832(EBL)239906(OCoLC)437153229(SSID)ssj0000105140(PQKBManifestationID)11127679(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105140(PQKBWorkID)10085817(PQKB)10872907(MiAaPQ)EBC239906(MiAaPQ)EBC7076254(Au-PeEL)EBL7076254(EXLCZ)99100000000034183220050325d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArchaeologies of materiality[electronic resource] /edited by Lynn MeskellMalden, MA ;Oxford Blackwell Pub.20051 online resource (242 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-3616-2 1-4051-3617-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Object Orientations; 2 Mastering Matters: Magical Sense and Apotropaic Figurine Worlds of Neo-Assyria; 3 The Social Life of Rock Art: Materiality, Consumption, and Power in South African Heritage; 4 With a Hint of Paris in the Mouth: Fetishized Toothbrushes or the Sensuous Experience of Modernity in Late 19th Century Bogotá; 5 Faith in Objects: American Indian Object Lessons at the World in Boston; 6 The Texture of Things: Objects, People, and Landscape in Northwest Argentina (First Millennium A.D.)7 Building an Architecture of Power: Electricity in Annapolis, Maryland in the 19th and 20th Centuries8 The Voices of Stones: Unthinkable Materiality in the Volcanic Context of Western Panamá; 9 Afterword; IndexDrawing on social theory and offering numerous case studies, Archaeologies of Materiality is one of the first books to explore materiality across time and space.Demonstrates the saliency of materiality by linking it to concepts of landscape, technology, embodiment, ritual, and heritage. Offers archaeological case studies ranging from prehistoric to contemporary contexts, from Neo-Assyria, South Africa, Argentina, Panama, and the United States. Explores the idea of a material universe that is socially conceived and constructed, but that also shapes human eSocial archaeologyMaterial cultureElectronic books.Social archaeology.Material culture.930.115.39bclMeskell Lynn768889MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910143319303321Archaeologies of materiality1920513UNINA