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An Archaeology of Interaction - Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (Hardcover)
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An Archaeology of Interaction - Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (Hardcover)
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Think of a souvenir from a foreign trip, or an heirloom passed down
the generations - distinctive individual artefacts allow us to
think and act beyond the proximate, across both space and time.
While this makes anecdotal sense, what does scholarship have to say
about the role of artefacts in human thought? Surprisingly,
material culture research tends also to focus on individual
artefacts. But objects rarely stand independently from one another
they are interconnected in complex constellations. This innovative
volume asserts that it is such 'networks of objects' that instill
objects with their power, enabling them to evoke distant times and
places for both individuals and communities.
Using archaeological case studies from the Bronze Age of Greece
throughout, Knappett develops a long-term, archaeological angle on
the development of object networks in human societies. He explores
the benefits such networks create for human interaction across
scales, and the challenges faced by ancient societies in balancing
these benefits against their costs. In objectifying and controlling
artefacts in networks, human communities can lose track of the
recalcitrant pull that artefacts exercise. Materials do not always
do as they are asked. We never fully understand all their aspects.
This we grasp in our everyday, unconscious working in the
phenomenal world, but overlook in our network thinking. And this
failure to attend to things and give them their due can lead to
societal 'disorientation'.
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