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Book Synopsis
Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present.

Table of Contents

List of contributors vi

Preface vii

Part I Structuralism

1 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Beyond 3

Part II Hermeneutics

2 Paul Ricoeur: Action, Meaning and Text 85

3 Clifford Geertz: Towards a More 'Thick' Understanding? 121

Part III Post-Structuralism

4 Roland Barthes: From Sign to Text 163

5 Jacques Derrida: 'There is nothing outside of the text' 206

6 Michel Foucault: Towards an Archaeology of Archaeology 281

Index 348

Reading Material Culture Structuralism

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 15/03/1990
      ISBN13: 9780631172857, 978-0631172857
      ISBN10: 0631172858
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      Linguistics Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics Cultural studies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we 'read' artefacts and inscribe them into the present.

      Table of Contents

      List of contributors vi

      Preface vii

      Part I Structuralism

      1 Claude Levi-Strauss: Structuralism and Beyond 3

      Part II Hermeneutics

      2 Paul Ricoeur: Action, Meaning and Text 85

      3 Clifford Geertz: Towards a More 'Thick' Understanding? 121

      Part III Post-Structuralism

      4 Roland Barthes: From Sign to Text 163

      5 Jacques Derrida: 'There is nothing outside of the text' 206

      6 Michel Foucault: Towards an Archaeology of Archaeology 281

      Index 348

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