Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things PDF

Ian Hodder ist Dunleavie Family Professor für Archäologie an der Stanford University. Als Fellow der British Academy erhielt er zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für seine Leistungen, darunter die Oscar-Montelius-Medaille der Swedish Society of Antiquaries, die Huxley Memorial Medal des Royal Anthropological Institute, den Fyssen International Prize und die Gold Medal des Archaeological Institute of America sowie Ehrendoktorwürden der Universitäten Bristol und Leiden. Hodder ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher, darunter Symbols in Action (Cambridge, 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge, 1982) und Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things pdf von Ian Hodder

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