Archaeological Semiotics 5 Soc

Preucel, Robert W.

ISBN 10: 140519913X / ISBN 13: 9781405199131

Edité par Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

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Synopsis :

This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology's engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture.

À propos de l'auteur: Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at Southern Illinois University and Harvard University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is co-editor of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory (with Ian Hodder, Blackwell 1996).

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Archaeological Semiotics 5 Soc
Éditeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Date d'édition : 2010
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Very Good