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Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture
in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical
evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical
environment, considering how people in the past have not just
dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages
with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although
archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of
physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things,
to understand humans they must also address the performances, as
well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains.
The contributions in this volume investigate the way time,
performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are
central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a
book about the constellations of people, places and things that
emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal
engagements. This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with
perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography
and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections
of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the
ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category
of material objects that have defined much research into what it
means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands
upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the
lives and interactions of past societies.
'Passing' is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or
she is said to 'pass away' or 'pass on'. This open-ended saying has
at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another,
which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating
the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay. This
book begins with the idea that since all material things - whether
animals, human beings, objects or buildings - undergo some form of
passing, then the specific transformation in these passages and the
materiality actively given to it can offer us a grasp of otherwise
precarious temporalities. It examines how human beings strive to
relate to the temporal dimension of death and decay, by giving new
shape and direction to being and by examining its natural
transformations. Focusing on the materiality of passing, and
thereby the relationship between embodiment, temporality and death,
Materialities of Passing offers rich case studies from Europe,
Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the Russian Far East for
exploring the material, spatial and directional aspects of the very
interface between life and death. As such, it will appeal to
scholars of anthropology, death studies, archaeology, philosophy
and cultural studies.
Elements of Architecture explores new ways of engaging architecture
in archaeology. It conceives of architecture both as the physical
evidence of past societies and as existing beyond the physical
environment, considering how people in the past have not just
dwelled in buildings but have existed within them. The book engages
with the meeting point between these two perspectives. For although
archaeologists must deal with the presence and absence of
physicality as a discipline, which studies humans through things,
to understand humans they must also address the performances, as
well as temporal and affective impacts, of these material remains.
The contributions in this volume investigate the way time,
performance and movement, both physically and emotionally, are
central aspects of understanding architectural assemblages. It is a
book about the constellations of people, places and things that
emerge and dissolve as affective, mobile, performative and temporal
engagements. This volume juxtaposes archaeological research with
perspectives from anthropology, architecture, cultural geography
and philosophy in order to explore the kaleidoscopic intersections
of elements coming together in architecture. Documenting the
ephemeral, relational, and emotional meeting points with a category
of material objects that have defined much research into what it
means to be human, Elements of Architecture elucidates and expands
upon a crucial body of evidence which allows us to explore the
lives and interactions of past societies.
'Passing' is a common euphemism for the death of a person, as he or
she is said to 'pass away' or 'pass on'. This open-ended saying has
at its heart a notion of transformation from one state to another,
which in turn grants the possibility of grasping or approximating
the passage of time and the materiality of death and decay. This
book begins with the idea that since all material things - whether
animals, human beings, objects or buildings - undergo some form of
passing, then the specific transformation in these passages and the
materiality actively given to it can offer us a grasp of otherwise
precarious temporalities. It examines how human beings strive to
relate to the temporal dimension of death and decay, by giving new
shape and direction to being and by examining its natural
transformations. Focusing on the materiality of passing, and
thereby the relationship between embodiment, temporality and death,
Materialities of Passing offers rich case studies from Europe,
Papua New Guinea, South Africa and the Russian Far East for
exploring the material, spatial and directional aspects of the very
interface between life and death. As such, it will appeal to
scholars of anthropology, death studies, archaeology, philosophy
and cultural studies.
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