The Meanings of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression pdf

Ian Hodder est professeur d'archéologie de la famille Dunleavie à l'Université de Stanford. Membre de la British Academy, il a reçu de nombreux prix pour ses réalisations, dont la médaille Oscar Montelius de la Société suédoise des antiquaires, la médaille commémorative Huxley du Royal Anthropological Institute, le prix international Fyssen et la médaille d'or de l'Archaeological Institute of America, ainsi que des doctorats honorifiques des universités de Bristol et de Leiden. Hodder est l'auteur de nombreux livres, dont Symbols in Action (Cambridge, 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge, 1982) et Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

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