| Archaeological Semiotics Contributor(s): Preucel, Robert W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 140519913X ISBN-13: 9781405199131 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $53.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 930.1 |
| Series: Social Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.1 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |