LEADER 04157nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910781614503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-21179-3 010 $a9786613211798 010 $a0-8122-0249-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202496 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050970 035 $a(OCoLC)759158245 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492001 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649843 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11436349 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649843 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10610644 035 $a(PQKB)10005928 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3161 035 $a(DE-B1597)449107 035 $a(OCoLC)1013942716 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980376 035 $a(OCoLC)1041978983 035 $a(OCoLC)1046611129 035 $a(OCoLC)1047001112 035 $a(OCoLC)1049664428 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881384 035 $a(OCoLC)824651956 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202496 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441544 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492001 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL321179 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441544 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050970 100 $a20040702d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThinking through material culture$b[electronic resource] $ean interdisciplinary perspective /$fCarl Knappett 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (213 p.) 225 1 $aArchaeology, culture, and society 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-3788-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. Introduction: Thinking Through Material Culture -- $t2. Animacy, Agency, and Personhood -- $t3. Cognition, Perception, and Action -- $t4. The Dynamics of Networks -- $t5. Networks of Meaning: A Sociosemiotics of Material Culture -- $t6. Thinking Through: Meaning in Modern Material Culture -- $t7. Archaeological Case Study: Drinking Vessels in Minoan Crete -- $t8. Conclusions -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aMaterial culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material culture, although this is now beginning to change, with material culture recently emerging as a topic in its own right within the social sciences. Carl Knappett seeks to contribute to this emergent field by adopting a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach that is rooted in archaeology and integrates anthropology, sociology, art history, semiotics, psychology, and cognitive science. His thesis is that humans both act and think through material culture; ways of knowing and ways of doing are ingrained within even the most mundane of objects. This requires that we adopt a relational perspective on material artifacts and human agents, as a means of characterizing their complex interdependencies. In order to illustrate the networks of meaning that result, Knappett discusses examples ranging from prehistoric Aegean ceramics to Zande hunting nets and contemporary art.Thinking Through Material Culture argues that, although material culture forms the bedrock of archaeology, the discipline has barely begun to address how fundamental artifacts are to human cognition and perception. This idea of codependency among mind, action, and matter opens the way for a novel and dynamic approach to all of material culture, both past and present. 410 0$aArchaeology, culture, and society. 606 $aMaterial culture 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aArchaeology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 615 0$aMaterial culture. 676 $a930.1 686 $aLB 85000$2rvk 700 $aKnappett$b Carl$0478194 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781614503321 996 $aThinking through material culture$93832202 997 $aUNINA