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Interrogating Networks - Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity (Paperback)
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Interrogating Networks - Investigating Networks of Knowledge in Antiquity (Paperback)
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Network theory and methodologies have become central to exploring
and explaining social, economic and political relationships and
connections in past societies. However, in archaeology, the
deployment of networks has sometimes been more descriptive than
analytical. Methodologies have often depended upon underlying
assumptions which inevitably simplify relationships that were
complex and multi-faceted. However, the fragmentary, heterogenous
and usually proxy data we possess are not always amenable to
reconstructing that complexity. In ancient societies, we must infer
the movement of knowledge about 'how to make things' largely from
objects themselves. This is because we usually lack direct evidence
of the human relationships that entwined people with objects and
their makers, and hence have only imperfect understanding of the
full range of diverse factors that shaped the relationships that
constituted these networks. The chapters in this volume aim to
interrogate the interpretative potential of network concepts for
understanding the movement over time and space of ideas about
making, using and moving things through a range of archaeological
case studies, which reveal both functional and dysfunctional
relationships. The purpose is to consider how more broadly
contextualised and multi-faceted studies can both enhance, and be
enhanced by, network and related approaches. The volume contributes
to the search for greater understanding of the movement and
transmission of knowledge (or in some cases their absence), and to
debates about how best to expand the utility of network concepts
and approaches.
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