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An Archaeology of Interaction - Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (Paperback)
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An Archaeology of Interaction - Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society (Paperback)
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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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