The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression 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).

The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression pdf von Ian Hodder

One of a series of books resulting from the 1986 World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England. The 25 articles by authors from around the world examine some of the following topics: objectivity in interpretation; the "meaning" of archaeological objects; symbolic expression; style; ritual and burial; spatial meanings. A number of the papers use the methods and concepts of semiotics. Hodder has presented the papers in a random order for post-structuralist reasons (ie to avoid imposing his own "meaning" on the diverse papers included in the volume and to encourage readers to construct their own interpretations).