An Archaeology of Interaction - Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society

Zusatztext Carl Knappett's book represents a milestone in the study of archaeological distribution patterns. Network analysis has in recent years become highly influential in the study of past human interaction as represented by material culture. Knappett shows, through the skilful use of a range of case-studies and theoretical standpoints, how the network approach to material culture can shed new and sometimes unexpected light on many aspects of interactions in the ancient past. Informationen zum Autor Professor Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he is Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory. His previous books include Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, the latter coedited with Lambros Malafouris. He conducts fieldwork at various Bronze Age sites across the Aegean, focussing recently on the Minoan town of Palaikastro in east Crete. Klappentext Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network quality of human-artefact interactions, and examines the ways in which societies have succeeded or failed in counterbalancing their costs and benefits. Zusammenfassung Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network quality of human-artefact interactions, and examines the ways in which societies have succeeded or failed in counterbalancing their costs and benefits. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 1: Introduction 2: Interaction, Space, and Scale 3: Networks Between Disciplines Part 2 4: Micro-Networks: Proximate Interactions 5: Meso-Networks: Communities of Practice 6: Macro-Networks: Reginal Interactions Part 3 7: Networks of Objects 8: Meshworks of Things 9: Temporalities and Biographical Care Epilogue Future Challenges ...

Product details

• Authors: Carl Knappett, Carl (Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory Knappett, Knappett Carl
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2011
• EAN: 9780199215454
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921545-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; prehistory, HISTORY / Ancient / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Ancient World, Material Culture, Ancient History, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Prehistoric archaeology, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology