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Landscape in the Longue Duree (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley Landscape in the Longue Duree (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
A Phenomenology of Landscape - Places, Paths and Monuments (Hardcover, First): Christopher Tilley A Phenomenology of Landscape - Places, Paths and Monuments (Hardcover, First)
Christopher Tilley
R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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

Re-constructing Archaeology - Theory and Practice (Paperback, 2nd edition): Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley Re-constructing Archaeology - Theory and Practice (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley
R1,426 Discovery Miles 14 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




eBook available with sample pages: HB:0415085225

An Anthropology of Landscape - The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Paperback): Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum An Anthropology of Landscape - The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Body and Image - Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2 (Paperback): Christopher Tilley Body and Image - Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2 (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley
R1,359 Discovery Miles 13 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden - An Introduction and Guide (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley The Dolmens and Passage Graves of Sweden - An Introduction and Guide (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R5,300 Discovery Miles 53 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Interpreting Landscapes - Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3 (Paperback):... Interpreting Landscapes - Geologies, Topographies, Identities; Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 3 (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley
R1,515 Discovery Miles 15 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Landscape in the Longue DureE - A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley Landscape in the Longue DureE - A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R1,531 Discovery Miles 15 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Landscape in the Longue DureE - A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape (Paperback): Christopher Tilley Landscape in the Longue DureE - A History and Theory of Pebbles in a Pebbled Heathland Landscape (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley
R902 Discovery Miles 9 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
An Anthropology of Landscape - The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum An Anthropology of Landscape - The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley, Kate Cameron-Daum
R1,355 Discovery Miles 13 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Material Culture and Text - The Art of Ambiguity (Paperback): Christopher Tilley Material Culture and Text - The Art of Ambiguity (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Re-constructing Archaeology - Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley Re-constructing Archaeology - Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley
R3,996 Discovery Miles 39 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Material Culture and Text - The Art of Ambiguity (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley Material Culture and Text - The Art of Ambiguity (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R3,980 Discovery Miles 39 800 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Body and Image - Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2 (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley Body and Image - Explorations in Landscape Phenomenology 2 (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R4,268 Discovery Miles 42 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Stone Worlds - Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (Paperback): Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton, Christopher Tilley Stone Worlds - Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (Paperback)
Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton, Christopher Tilley
R1,564 Discovery Miles 15 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Stone Worlds - Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (Hardcover, New): Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton, Christopher... Stone Worlds - Narrative and Reflexivity in Landscape Archaeology (Hardcover, New)
Barbara Bender, Sue Hamilton, Christopher Tilley
R4,306 Discovery Miles 43 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Interpretative Archaeology (Paperback, First): Christopher Tilley Interpretative Archaeology (Paperback, First)
Christopher Tilley
R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

London's Urban Landscape - Another Way of Telling (Paperback): Christopher Tilley London's Urban Landscape - Another Way of Telling (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley
R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Interpretative Archaeology (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley Interpretative Archaeology (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R4,017 Discovery Miles 40 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Baronial Reform and Revolution in England, 1258-1267 (Hardcover): Adrian L Jobson Baronial Reform and Revolution in England, 1258-1267 (Hardcover)
Adrian L Jobson; Contributions by Adrian L Jobson, Andrew H. Hershey, Benjamin L. Wild, Christopher Tilley, …
R2,643 Discovery Miles 26 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

An Ethnography of the Neolithic - Early Prehistoric Societies in Southern Scandinavia (Paperback, New Ed): Christopher Tilley An Ethnography of the Neolithic - Early Prehistoric Societies in Southern Scandinavia (Paperback, New Ed)
Christopher Tilley
R2,026 R966 Discovery Miles 9 660 Save R1,060 (52%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

London's Urban Landscape - Another Way of Telling (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley London's Urban Landscape - Another Way of Telling (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R1,679 Discovery Miles 16 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Ideology, Power and Prehistory (Paperback): Daniel Miller, Christopher Tilley Ideology, Power and Prehistory (Paperback)
Daniel Miller, Christopher Tilley
R942 Discovery Miles 9 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Handbook of Material Culture (Paperback): Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler-Fogden, Mike Rowlands, Patricia Spyer Handbook of Material Culture (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley, Webb Keane, Susanne Kuechler-Fogden, Mike Rowlands, Patricia Spyer
R923 R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Save R108 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Landscape in the Longue Duree (Paperback): Christopher Tilley Landscape in the Longue Duree (Paperback)
Christopher Tilley
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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