Sites, Traces, and Materiality An Alchemy of Medieval Honduras

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Rosemary A. Joyce is Distinguished Professor Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. An archaeologist who has conducted excavations in Honduras for more than thirty years, and a museum anthropologist who has studies collections in museums throughout Europe, North America, and Central America, Joyce is a specialist in the study of ceramics, including vessels and figural sculpture. She has published pathbreaking work on archaeology of sex and gender, and contributions to understanding heritage thinking in both the contemporary world and the past.

Zusammenfassung

Sites, Traces, and Materiality proposes a new materialist model for archaeology that brings together the concept of site ontology from geography, a novel analysis of archaeological materiality as traces, and engagement with the concept of animacy hierarchy, in order to explore how geological materials can be reconceived as active.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Rosemary A. Joyce, Rosemary A. (University of California Joyce
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.09.2024
• Thema: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Antike; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika
• EAN: 9781032789439
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3278943-9
• Anzahl Seiten: 154
• Themen: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Honduras, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Archaeology by period / region, Archaeological Theory, Extractive industries, Indigenous Archaeology, mineral agency, Lenca philosophy, medieval Latin America, animacy hierarchy, indigenous material engagement