The aim of Artefacts as Categories is to ask what we can learn
about a society from the variability of the objects it produces. Dr
Miller presents a comprehensive analysis of the pottery produced in
a single village in central India, drawing together and analysing a
whole range of aspects - technology, function, design, symbolism
and ideology - that are usually studied separately. Using the
concepts of 'pragmatics', 'framing' and 'ideology', the author
points to the insufficiency of many ethnographic accounts of
symbolism and underlines the need to consider both the social
positioning of the interpreter and the context of the
interpretation when looking at artefacts. His invigorating study
cogently questions many assumptions in material culture studies and
offers a whole range of fresh explanations. Archaeologists in
particular will welcome the discussion of familiar materials such
as pottery rim shapes, body forms and decoration. However, the book
will have a broad appeal to researchers in cultural studies, social
anthropology and psychology and will attract all those interested
in the problem of relating objects and society.
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