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

Ian Hodder è professore di archeologia della famiglia Dunleavie presso la Stanford University. Fellow della British Academy, ha ricevuto numerosi riconoscimenti per i suoi successi, tra cui la Medaglia Oscar Montelius dalla Società Svedese degli Antiquari, la Medaglia commemorativa Huxley dal Royal Anthropological Institute, il Premio Internazionale Fyssen e la Medaglia d'Oro dall'Archaeological Institute of America, insieme a dottorati honoris causa dalle università di Bristol e Leiden. Hodder è autore di numerosi libri, tra cui Symbols in Action (Cambridge, 1982), Reading the Past (Cambridge, 1982) e Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things pdf da 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