Artefacts As Categories - A Study of Ceramic Variability in Central India

Klappentext The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Zusammenfassung The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. His invigorating study cogently questions many assumptions in material culture studies and offers a whole range of fresh explanations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The context of fieldwork; 2. Creating categories: the manufacture of pottery; 3. Form and function; 4. The Dangwara potters and the distribution of pottery; 5. An analysis of the paintings; 6. The ritual context; 7. A symbolic framework for the interpretation of variability; 8. Pottery as categories; 9. Pottery and social strategy; Conclusion: archaeology and society; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Miller Daniel, Daniel Miller
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521104791
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10479-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: New Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)