Symbolic and Structural Archaeology

Name: Symbolic and Structural Archaeology
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ISBN: 9780521035507

ISBN-10: 0521035503

ISBN-13: 9780521035507

Edition: 2007

Authors: Ian Hodder

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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…

Book details

List price: $57.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 8.23" wide x 10.98" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Ian Hodder is Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. He has been Director of the Catalhoyuk Research Project since 1993.



Part I



Theoretical archaeology: a reactionary view




Artefacts as products of human categorisation processes




Social formation, social structures and social change Christopher Tilley



Epistemological issues raised by a structuralist archaeology




The Search for Models



Matters material and ideal




House Power: Swahili space and symbolic markers




The interpretation of spatial patterning in settlement residues




Decoration as ritual symbol: a theoretical proposal and an ethnographic study in southern




Structures and strategies: an aspect of the relationship between social hierarchy and cultural change




Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnoarchaeological study




Application: the analysis of archaeological materials



Boundedness in art and society




Ideology, symbolic power and ritual communication: a reinterpretation of Neolithic mortuary practices




Ideology, change and the European Early Bronze Age




Sequences of structural change in the Dutch Neolithic




Commentary: Childe's offspring



Index