| Description |
xxvii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Series |
One world archaeology ; 6 |
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One world archaeology ; 6
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| Contents |
The political use of Australian Aboriginal body painting and its archaeological implications / Robert Layton -- Terracotta worship in fringe Bengal / D.K. Bhattacharya -- Iron and beads : male and female symbols of creation. A study of ornament among Booran Oromo / Aneesa Kassam and Gemetchu Megersa -- The messages of material behaviour : a preliminary discussion of non-verbal meaning / Roland Fletcher -- Religious cults and ritual practice among the Mendi people of the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea / Theodore Mawe -- Sites as texts : an exploration of Mousterian traces / Lucy Jayne Botscharow -- Style and changing relations between the individual and society / Polly Wiessner -- Post-modernism, post-structuralism and post-processual archaeology / Ian Hodder -- 'We, the post-megalithic people...' / Felipe Criado -- The diffusion of religious symbols within complex societies / L. Carless Hulin -- Social evidence from the interpretation of Middle Minoan figurines / Angeliki Pilali-Papasteriou -- The priestess figure of Malta / Cristina Biaggi -- Ethno-archaeological cognition and cognitive ethno-archaeology / Zbigniew Kobyliński -- Heresy and its traces : the material results of culture / K. Teague -- Etics, emics and empathy in archaeological theory / E.M. Melas -- Bark capes, arrowheads and Concorde : on social representations of technology / Pierre Lemonnier -- The artefact as abbreviated act : a social interpretation of material culture / Miles Richardson -- The material symbols of the Winnebago sky and Earth moieties / Robert L. Hall -- Interpreting material culture / Christopher Tilley -- Divine kingdoms in northern Africa : material manifestations of social institutions / Else Johansen Kleppe -- Towards an archaeology of thought / Whitney Davis -- Tusona ideographs - a lesson in interpretive objectivity / Gerhard Kubik -- Organizational constraints on tattoo images : a sociological analysis of artistic style / Clinton R. Sanders -- A semiotic approach in rock-art analysis / Ana Maria Llamazares -- Habitus and social space : some suggestions about meaning in the Saami (Lapp) tent ca. 1700-1900 / Timothy Yates |
| Analysis |
Archaeology |
| Notes |
Discussions from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, Sept. 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Ethnoarchaeology -- Congresses.
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Material culture -- Congresses.
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Social archaeology -- Congresses.
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Symbolism -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Hodder, Ian.
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World Archaeological Congress (1986 : Southampton, England)
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| LC no. |
88017663 |
| ISBN |
0003020657 (paperback) |
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0044450176 |
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