Description
Book SynopsisThinking 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." *
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
