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Historical Archaeologies of Cognition - Explorations into Faith, Hope and Charity (Hardcover)
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Historical Archaeologies of Cognition - Explorations into Faith, Hope and Charity (Hardcover)
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This collection of essays draws inspiration from the late James
Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten (1977). Deetz's seminal work
broke new ground by using structuralist theory to show how
artefacts reflected the 'worldviews' or ideologies of their makers
and users, and went on to claim that the American colonial world
had been structured according to a British intellectual blueprint,
the so-called 'Georgian Order'. Thirty years on, this influential
thesis has been substantially revised by more recent scholarship,
but Deetz's central premise, that the systematic study of mundane
material objects such as tombstones, architecture, and furniture,
can render palpable the intangible aspects of human cognition and
belief systems, has become a fundamental tenet of modern historical
archaeology. Drawing upon James Deetz's insight that everyday
objects from the recent past are freighted with social
significance, and that material culture operates alongside language
as a system of communication, the authors present a series of case
studies which unravel specific cultural moments in well-documented
historical periods across the modern world. The very best
historical archaeologies create intimate material histories that
expose constructions of race, class, gender, and have the capacity
to challenge taken-for-granted knowledge and received political
histories. The studies in this volume range in date from the early
17th century to the late 20th century and are unified by the way in
which they employ theory from archaeology and anthropology to
elucidate the complex links between human thought and action. The
authors in this volume make a significant contribution to
archaeological knowledge through their ability to move beyond
simple materialities to create interesting human stories that
transcend purely descriptive show-and-tell accounts of
archaeological sites. Chapters by international scholars from North
America, Europe, and Australia demonstrate the vitality of their
approaches to historical archaeology through a series of compelling
case studies. For the first time to an Anglophone audience this
volume presents the latest research from Finland and Spain.
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