Entangled : an archaeology of the relationships between humans and things / / Ian Hodder

• Autore: Hodder Ian
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Material culture; Social archaeology
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things; Contents; Epigraph; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Thinking About Things Differently; Approaches to Things; Themes About Things; Things are Not Isolated; Things are Not Inert; Things Endure over Different Temporalities; Things Often Appear as Non-things; The Forgetness of Things; What Is a Thing?; Humans and Things; Knowing Things; Conclusion: The Objectness of Things; 2 Humans Depend on Things; Dependence: Some Introductory Concepts; Forms of Dependence; Reflective and Non-reflective Relationships with Things ; Going Towards and Away From ThingsIdentification and Ownership; Approaches to the Human Dependence On Things; Being There with Things; Material Culture and Materiality; Cognition and the Extended Mind; Conclusion: Things R Us; 3 Things Depend on Other Things; Forms of Connection between Things; Production and Reproduction; Exchange; Use; Consumption; Discard; Post-deposition; Affordances; From Affordance to Dependence; The French School - Operational Chains; Behavioral Chains; Conclusion; 4 Things Depend on Humans; Things Fall Apart; Behavioral Archaeology and Material Behavior ; Behavioral EcologyHuman Behavioral Ecology; The Temporalities of Things; Conclusion: The Unruliness of Things; 5 Entanglement; Other Approaches; Latour and Actor Network Theory; The Archaeology of Entanglement; The Physical Processes of Things; Temporalities; Forgetness; The Tautness of Entanglements; Types and Degrees of Entanglement; Cores and Peripheries of Entanglements; Contingency; Conclusion; 6 Fittingness; Nested Fittingness; Return to Affordance; Coherence: Abstraction, Metaphor, Mimesis and Resonance; Abstraction, Metaphor and Mimesis; Synaesthesia; Resonance ; Coherence and Resonance at ÇatalhöyükConclusion; 7 The Evolution and Persistence of Things; Evolutionary Approaches; Evolutionary Ecology (HBE); Evolutionary Archaeology; Dual Inheritance Theory; Evolution and Entanglement; Niche Construction; Evolution at Çatalhöyük; Conclusion; 8 Things happen ...; The Complexity of Entanglements; Open, Complex and Discontinuous Entanglements; Unruly Things: Contingency; Conjunction of Temporalities; Catalysis: Small Things and the Emergence of Big Effects; Is there a Directionality to Entanglements?; Some Neolithic Examples; Macro-evolutionary Approaches ; Why Do Entanglements Increase the Rate of Change?Conclusion; 9 Tracing the Threads; Tanglegrams; Locating Entanglements; Sequencing Entanglements - at Çatalhöyük; Sequencing Entanglements - the Origins of Agriculture in the Middle East; Causality and Directionality; Conclusion; 10 Conclusions; The Object Nature of Things; Too Much Stuff?; Temporality and Structure; Power and Agency; To and from Formulaic Reduction; Things Again; Some Ethical Considerations; The Last Thing on my Mind; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and cultureOffers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialismDiscusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increa
• Titolo autorizzato: Entangled
• ISBN: 1-118-24195-9; 1-280-58785-7; 0-470-67211-0; 1-118-24191-6; 9786613617682; 1-118-24189-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141319803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II