Materiality and social practice: transformative capacities of intercultural encounters
Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader und...
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| Format: | Conference Paper Edited Volume |
| Language: | English |
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Havertown
Oxbow Books
2012
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| Online Access: | Aggregator, Volltext: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1128603
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| Author Notes: | ed. by Joseph Maran ... |
| Summary: | Materiality and Social Practice investigates the transformative potential arising from the interplay between material forms, social practices and intercultural relations. Such a focus necessitates an approach that takes a transcultural perspective as a fundamental methodology and, then a broader understanding of the inter-relationship between humans and objects. Adopting a transcultural approach forces us to change archaeology's approach towards items coming from the outside. By using them mostly for reconstructing systems of exchange or for chronology, archaeology has for a long time reduced |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9781842174586 |