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Thinking Through Material Culture provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the pivotal role of material culture in human cognition, perception and action.

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"The book is extremely well researched, drawing on the cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, art history, philosophy, the neurosciences, semiotics, semiology, and, of course, archaeology and anthropology. . . . A path-breaking book." * Current Anthropology *

Table of Contents

Introduction: thinking through material culture
2. Animacy, agency, and personhood
3. Cognition, perception, and action
4. The dynamics of networks
5. Networks of meaning: a sociosemiotics of material culture
6. Thinking through: meaning in modern material culture
7. Archaeological case study: drinking vessels in Minoan Crete
8. Conclusions

Thinking Through Material Culture

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 2 April 2005
      ISBN-13 9780812237887
      978-0812237887
      ISBN-10 0812237889
      Also in:
      History of art Archaeological theory Archaeology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Thinking Through Material Culture provides a new theoretical framework for understanding the pivotal role of material culture in human cognition, perception and action.

      Trade Review
      "The book is extremely well researched, drawing on the cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, art history, philosophy, the neurosciences, semiotics, semiology, and, of course, archaeology and anthropology. . . . A path-breaking book." * Current Anthropology *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: thinking through material culture
      2. Animacy, agency, and personhood
      3. Cognition, perception, and action
      4. The dynamics of networks
      5. Networks of meaning: a sociosemiotics of material culture
      6. Thinking through: meaning in modern material culture
      7. Archaeological case study: drinking vessels in Minoan Crete
      8. Conclusions

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