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Archaeological Semiotics
Robert W. Preucel
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Paperback. This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. Series: Social Archaeology. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: HDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology’s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture.
This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology’s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture.
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Throughout his analysis, Preucel emphasizes the close links between archaeology and other social sciences. But he also contends that archaeology, by virtue of the powerful ideological character of the past, can open up new spaces for discourse and dialogue about meaning, and, in the process, make a valuable contribution to contemporary semiotics.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Social Archaeology
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405199131
SKU
V9781405199131
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About Robert W. Preucel
Robert W. Preucel is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Curator of North American Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught previously at Southern Illinois University and Harvard University and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. He is co-editor of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory (with Ian Hodder, Blackwell 1996).
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