Archaeologies of materiality / / edited by Lynn Meskell

• Pubblicazione: Malden, Massachusetts ; ; Oxford, England : , : Blackwell Pub., , [2005]; ©2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Social archaeology; Material culture
• Classificazione: 15.39
• Persona (resp. second.): MeskellLynn
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Drawing 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 e
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeologies of materiality
• ISBN: 1-281-21503-1; 9786611215033; 0-470-76374-4; 0-470-77405-3; 1-4051-5022-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830825303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II