Book
Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to the Interpretation of Material Culture
Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Series, University of Utah Press
1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/112434
Abstract
Material Meanings focuses on the social context in which things are produced and in which they are given meaning.
With firm roots in antiquarianism, archaeology began as the study and collection of things. Even today objects take center stage in many areas of archaeological inquiry. But the past few decades have seen a proliferation of the ways anthropological archaeologist analyze raw materials, tools, techniques, finished products, and discarded objects.
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- Title
- Material Meanings: Critical Approaches to the Interpretation of Material Culture
- Creators
- Dean E. Arnold (Author)Philip J. Arnold III (Author)Ronald L. Bishop (Author)Margaret W. Conkey (Author)Cathy Lynne Costin (Author)Marcia Anne Dobres (Author)Michael D. Glascock (Author)Hector A. Neff (Author)Miriam T. Stark (Author)H. Martin Wobst (Author)Elizabeth Chilton (Editor) - Washington State University, Office of the Provost
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Series
- Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Series
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press; Salt Lake City, Utah
- Number of pages
- 192
- Identifiers
- 0874806089; 99900586062101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book