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Автор: Christopher Tilley
Год: 1990
Издание:
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Страниц: 372
ISBN: 9780631172857
Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we ?read? artefacts and inscribe them into the present. This book examines the complex relations between material culture, social structures and social practices from structuralist, hermeneutical and post–structuralist viewpoints. Reading Material Culture explores this interpretative process though examinations of the work of outstanding contemporary thinkers, focusing on Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Clifford Geertz, Claude Levi–Strauss and Paul Ricoeur. It is considers their contributions to understanding past and present social worlds and the role of material–culture production and use within them. Among the themes discussed are the nature of time and history; discourse and textuality; the problem of subjectivity; and the politics of academic production. Each chapter concludes...
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