Symbolic and Structural Archaeology pdf

Ian Hodder es profesor de arqueología de la familia Dunleavie en la Universidad de Stanford. Miembro de la Academia Británica, ha recibido numerosos premios por sus logros, incluida la Medalla Oscar Montelius de la Sociedad Sueca de Anticuarios, la Medalla Huxley Memorial del Royal Anthropological Institute, el Premio Internacional Fyssen y la Medalla de Oro del Archaeological Institute of America, junto con doctorados honorarios de las universidades de Bristol y Leiden. Hodder es autor de numerosos libros, incluidos Symbols in Action (Cambridge, 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge, 1982) y Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relations between Humans and Things (2012).

Symbolic and Structural Archaeology pdf por Ian Hodder

This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A variety of procedures, ranging from ethnoarchaeological studies and computing techniques to formal studies of artefact design variability, are utilized to provide models for archaeologists within the proposed framework and the theory and models are then applied to a range of archaeological analyses. This particular approach sees all human actions as being meaningfully constituted within a social and cultural framework. Material culture is not simply an adaptive tool, but is structured according to sets of underlying principles which give meaning to, and derive meanings from, the social world. Thus structural regularities are shown to link seemingly disparate aspects of material culture, from funerary monuments to artefact design, from the use of space in settlements, to the form of economic practices.