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Reading Material Culture
Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism
Christopher Tilley (Edited by)
9780631172857, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 15 March 1990
368 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm, 0.567 kg
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. This book examines the complex relations between material culture, social structures and social practices from structuralist, hermeneutical and post-structuralist viewpoints.
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 5 Jacques Derrida: 'There is nothing outside of the text' 206 6 Michel Foucault: Towards an Archaeology of Archaeology 281 Index 348
4 Roland Barthes: From Sign to Text 163
Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]
