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Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an
extended photographic essay about topographic features of the
landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape
perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the
landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to
examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their
topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of
Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing
attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river
valleys, mountain spurs in their immediate surroundings. These
monuments played an active role in socializing the landscape and
creating meaning in it.A Phenomenology of Landscape is unusual in
that it links two types of publishing which have remained distinct
in archaeology: books with atmospheric photographs of monuments
with a minimum of text and no interpretation; and the academic text
in which words provide a substitute for visual imagery.
Attractively illustrated with many photographs and diagrams, it
will appeal to anyone interested in prehistoric monuments and
landscape as well as students and specialists in archaeology,
anthropology and human geography. 'Reception, perception and
interpretation are key to understanding landscapes. This book
provides a useful starting point for comprehension of these
topics.'Dr. Stuart Prior, University of Bristol
The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture,
landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic
lens--a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art
history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on
canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus, Chris Tilley
argues, the iconographic approach falls short of understanding how
ancient people interacted with their imagery. A kinaesthetic
approach, one that uses the full body and all the senses, can
better approximate the meaning that these artifacts had for their
makers and today's viewers. The body intersects the landscape in a
myriad of ways--through the effort to reach the image, the angles
that one can use to view, the multiple senses required for
interaction. Tilley outlines the choreographic basis of
understanding ancient landscapes and art phenomenologically, and
demonstrates the power of his thesis through examples of rock art
and megalithic architecture in Norway, Ireland, and Sweden. This is
a powerful new model from one of the leading contemporary theorists
in archaeology.
This book is the first comprehensive introduction and guide to
Sweden's most spectacular Stone Age monuments: the dolmens and
passage graves, which began to be constructed over 5000 years ago.
The introduction provides a detailed social interpretation of these
monuments outlining how and why they were built and the ways in
which they related to economy and landscape, politics, ceremony,
symbolism and belief. This is followed by a systematic regional
guide to all the major monuments in Sk Halland, V ergotland,and and
Bohusl illustrated by numerous photographs, plans and maps.
This book takes a new approach to writing about the past. Instead
of studying the prehistory of Britain from Mesolithic to Iron Age
times in terms of periods or artifact classifications, Tilley
examines it through the lens of their geology and landscapes,
asserting the fundamental significance of the bones of the land in
the process of human occupation over the long duree. Granite
uplands, rolling chalk downlands, sandstone moorlands, and pebbled
hilltops each create their own potentialities and symbolic
resources for human settlement and require forms of social
engagement. Taking his findings from years of phenomenological
fieldwork experiencing different landscapes with all senses and
from many angles, Tilley creates a saturated and historically
imaginative account of the landscapes of southern England and the
people who inhabited them. This work is also a key theoretical
statement about the importance of landscapes for human settlement.
Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length
exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology.
It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological
analysis - the relationship between text and artefact - in an
analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory and the practice of
interpretation to create a fresh framework for understanding the
relationship between past and present. Focusing on a collection of
rock carvings from northern Sweden, the author shows how
alternative conceptualizations of the material from structuralist,
hermeneutic and structural-Marxist frameworks substantially alter
our understanding of their meaning and significance. Engaging
readers in an interpretive process, this book is for specialists in
archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural studies.
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Originally published in 1991, this is the first book-length
exploration of post-structuralist discourse theory in archaeology.
It tackles the most basic problem of historical and archaeological
analysis - the relationship between text and artefact in an
analysis of prehistoric art fusing theory and the practice of
interpretation to create a fresh framework for understanding the
relationship between past and present. Focusing on a collection of
rock carvings from northern Sweden, the author shows how
alternative conceptualizations of the material from structuralist,
hermeneutic and structural-Marxist frameworks substantially alter
our understanding of their meaning and significance. Engaging
readers in an interpretive process, this book is for specialists in
archaeology, anthropology, art history and cultural studies."
The understanding and interpretation of ancient architecture,
landscapes, and art has always been viewed through an iconographic
lens--a cognitive process based on traditional practices in art
history. But ancient people did not ascribe their visions on
canvas, rather on hills, stones, and fields. Thus, Chris Tilley
argues, the iconographic approach falls short of understanding how
ancient people interacted with their imagery. A kinaesthetic
approach, one that uses the full body and all the senses, can
better approximate the meaning that these artifacts had for their
makers and today's viewers. The body intersects the landscape in a
myriad of ways--through the effort to reach the image, the angles
that one can use to view, the multiple senses required for
interaction. Tilley outlines the choreographic basis of
understanding ancient landscapes and art phenomenologically, and
demonstrates the power of his thesis through examples of rock art
and megalithic architecture in Norway, Ireland, and Sweden. This is
a powerful new model from one of the leading contemporary theorists
in archaeology.
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the
results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project.
The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and
Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England,
especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal,
multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor-both
ancient and modern-using a large number of literary genres and
academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays
and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with
contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists,
geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the
Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized
within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a
tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past
five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British
prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking
project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the
interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of
archaeology.
This book represents an innovative experiment in presenting the
results of a large-scale, multidisciplinary archaeological project.
The well-known authors and their team examined the Neolithic and
Bronze Age landscapes on Bodmin Moor of Southwest England,
especially the site of Leskernick. The result is a multivocal,
multidisciplinary telling of the stories of Bodmin Moor-both
ancient and modern-using a large number of literary genres and
academic disciplines. Dialogue, storytelling, poetry, photo essays
and museum exhibits all appear in the volume, along with
contributions from archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists,
geologists, and ecologists. The result is a major synthesis of the
Bronze Age settlements and ritual sites of the Moor, contextualized
within the Bronze Ages of southwestern and central Britain, and a
tracing of the changing meaning of this landscape over the past
five thousand years. Of obvious interest to those in British
prehistory, this is a substantial presentation of a groundbreaking
project that will also be of interest to many concerned with the
interpretation of social landscapes and the public presentation of
archaeology.
This fascinating volume integrates recent developments in
anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed
studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the
manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and
post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of
the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas
of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists.
Archaeology, most of us learned in school, consists in the
painstaking digging up and sifting of relics from extinct cultures;
hardly an exciting or indeed interesting activity - for most of us.
Archaeologists and anthropologists, professional and otherwise,
know better. In the buried structures and detritus of ancient
cultures can be found a world of knowledge and insight - empirical
and theoretical - into their cultures as well as our own. This
fascinating volume brings these worlds to life, by integrating
recent developments in anthropological and sociological theory with
a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. It is
an exploration of the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic,
Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our
understanding of the past, and provides a series of innovative
studies of key areas of interest to archaeologists and
anthropologists.
New investigations into a pivotal era of the thirteenth century.
The years between 1258 and 67 comprise one of the most influential
periods in the Middle Ages in England. This turbulent decade
witnessed a bitter power struggle between King Henry III and his
barons over who should control the government of the realm. Before
England eventually descended into civil war, a significant
proportion of the baronage had attempted to transform its
governance by imposing on the crown a programme of legislative and
administrative reform far more radical and wide-ranging than Magna
Carta in 1215. Constituting a critical stage in the development of
parliament, the reformist movement would remain unsurpassed in its
radicalism until the upheavals of the seventeenth century. Simon de
Montfort, the baronial champion, became the first leader of a
political movement to seize power and govern in the king's name.
The essays collected here offer the most recent research into and
ideas onthis pivotal period. Several contributions focus upon the
roles played in the political struggle by particular sections of
thirteenth-century society, including the Midland knights and their
political allegiances, aristocratic women, and the merchant elite
in London. The events themselves constitute the second major theme
of this volume, with subjects such as the secret revolution of
1258, Henry III's recovery of power in 1261, and the little studied
maritime theatre during the civil wars of 1263-7 being considered.
Adrian Jobson is an Associate Lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church
University. Contributors: Sophie Ambler, Nick Barratt, David
Carpenter, PeterCoss, Mario Fernandes, Andrew H. Hershey, Adrian
Jobson, Lars Kjaer, John A. McEwan, Tony Moore, Fergus Oakes, H.W.
Ridgeway, Christopher David Tilley, Benjamin L. Wild, Louise J.
Wilkinson.
Archaeological research in Sweden and Denmark has uncovered a
startling array of evidence over the last 150 years, but until now
there has been no comprehensive synthesis and interpretation of the
material. An Ethnography of the Neolithic bridges this gap, giving
an accessible and up-to-date analysis of a wide range of evidence,
from landscapes to monumental tombs to portable artifacts.
Christopher Tilley also uses this material as a basis for a
provocative and novel reconstruction of late Mesolithic and earlier
Neolithic societies in southern Scandinavia, over a period of 3,000
years. His skilful integration of archaeological evidence with new
anthropological approaches makes this book an original contribution
to an important topic, whose significance stretches outside
Scandinavia, and beyond the Neolithic.
This book starts from the premise that methodology - the procedures
for obtaining an 'objective' knowledge of the past - has always
dominated archaeology to the detriment of broader social theory. It
argues that social theory is archaeological theory, and that past
failure to recognise this has resulted in disembodied
archaeological theory and weak disciplinary practice. Ideology,
Power and Prehistory therefore seeks to reinstate the primacy of
social theory and the social nature of the past worlds that
archaeologists seek to understand. The contributors to this book
argue that past peoples, the creators of the archaeological
records, should be understood as actively manipulating their own
material world to represent and misrepresent their own and others'
interests. Thus the concepts of ideology and power, long discussed
in social and political science yet largely ignored by
archaeologists, must henceforward play a central role in our
understanding of the past as a social creation. Archaeologists must
now consider how the material remains they study were used to
create images by past societies, which do not simply mirror or
reflect but actively orientate the nature of these societies.
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Handbook of Material Culture (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler-Fogden, Mike Rowlands, Patricia Spyer
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The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship
between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban
and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe.
The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical survey of the
theories, concepts, intellectual debates, substantive domains and
traditions of study characterizing the analysis of things. It is
cutting-edge: rather than simply reviewing the field as it
currently exists. It also attempts to chart the future: the manner
in which material culture studies may be extended and developed.
The Handbook of Material Culture is divided into five sections. *
Section I maps material culture studies as a theoretical and
conceptual field. * Section II examines the relationship between
material forms, the human body and the senses. * Section III
focuses on subject-object relations. * Section IV considers things
in terms of processes and transformations in terms of production,
exchange and consumption, performance and the significance of
things over the long-term. * Section V considers the contemporary
politics and poetics of displaying, representing and conserving
material and the manner in which this impacts on notions of
heritage, tradition and identity. The Handbook charts an
interdisciplinary field of studies that makes an unique and
fundamental contribution to an understanding of what it means to be
human. It will be of interest to all who work in the social and
historical sciences, from anthropologists and archaeologists to
human geographers to scholars working in heritage, design and
cultural studies.
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