Carl Knappett

Gebundenes Buch

An Archaeology of Interaction

Network Perspectives on Material Culture and Society

Beschreibung

Drawing particularly on the rich material culture from the Bronze Age of Greece, Knappett foregrounds the network quality of human-artefact interactions, and examines the ways in which societies have succeeded or failed in counterbalancing their costs and benefits.

Autor

Professor Carl Knappett teaches in the Department of Art at the University of Toronto, where he is Walter Graham/ Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory. His previous books include Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, and Material Agency: Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach, the latter coedited with Lambros Malafouris. He conducts fieldwork at various Bronze Age sites across the Aegean, focussing recently on the Minoan town of Palaikastro in east Crete.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780199215454
• ISBN-10: 0199215456
• Artikelnr.: 33253981