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Informationen zum Autor Ian Hodder is Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Previously he was Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge. His main large-scale excavation projects have been at Haddenham in the east of England and at Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He has been awarded several awards and honorary degrees. His books include The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük, The Archaeological Process (Blackwell), The Domestication of Europe (Blackwell), Symbols in Action and Reading the Past. Klappentext There has been a much-charted journey of the social sciences and humanities into the study of material culture in recent decades. In general these narratives continue a mostly human-centered perspective on history, and so have missed the importance of the ways in which material things draw us in, direct and define us.In his new book, influential archaeologist Ian Hodder discusses our human "entanglements" with material things, and how archaeological evidence can help us to understand the direction of human social and technological change.Using examples drawn from the early farming villages of the Middle East as well as from our daily lives in the modern world, Hodder shows how things can and do entrap humans and societies into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds. The earliest agricultural innovations, the phenomena of population increase, settlement stability, domestication of plants and animals can all be seen as elaborations of a general process by which humans were drawn into the lives of things.Using evolutionary theory, and ideas from archaeology and related disciplines, Hodder shows how the co-dependencies of humans and things are the hidden drivers of human progress. "Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, professionals." ( Choice , 1 May 2013) Zusammenfassung 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 culture* Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism* Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time* Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences* Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory Inhaltsverzeichnis Epigraph ixList of Figures xAcknowledgments xii1 Thinking About Things Differently 1Approaches to Things 1Themes About Things 3Things are Not Isolated 3Things are Not Inert 4Things Endure over Different Temporalities 5Things Often Appear as Non-things 5The Forgetness of Things 6What Is a Thing? 7Humans and Things 9Knowing Things 10Conclusion: The Objectness of Things 132 Humans Depend on Things 15Dependence: Some Introductory Concepts 17Forms of Dependence 17Reflective and Non-reflective Relationships with Things 18Going Towards and Away From Things 21Identification and Ownership 23Approaches to the Human Dependence On Things 27Being There with Things 27Material Culture and Materiality 30Cognition and the Extended Mind 34Conclusion: Things R Us 383 Things Depend on Other Things 40Forms of Connection between Things 42Production and Reproduction 42Exchange 43Use 43Consumption 43Discard 43Post-deposition 44Affordances 48From Affordance to Dependence 5...
