Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 144 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. "The central question which this book seeks to explore is - are we trying to reconstruct a past in our own image, chained solely to our own unacknowledged emotional, intellectual, and philosophical traditions? Should we in fact attempt to look anew at the fundamental concepts we often take for granted and, seeing them as constructs of the relatively recent past, begin to acknowledge our limitations and perhaps engage more profitably with archaeological evidence in various ways? Concepts considered include time, age and experience, literacy, text and the oral/aural, colour, emotion and the senses, the wild and nature, and the global and local. Wittgenstein's thought on the notion of family resemblance is taken as a starting point, yet the end result is not another nihilist offering based upon a post-modernist collapsed perspective, but rather a considered approach, which is ultimately positive in tone, owing a debt, if anything, to the philosophical outlooks of critical realism."--book jacket.

Series statement

1. Duckworth debates in archaeology

Uniform title

1. Duckworth debates in archaeology

Subject

1. Archaeology > Philosophy
2. Interpretation (Philosophy)
3. hermeneutics
4. 15.31 methods and techniques of archaeology
5. Archäologie
6. Methode
7. Archaeology
8. Philosophical aspects
9. Image building

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- 2. Global and local -- 3. Time, age, and experience -- 4. Textual, oral, visual, and digital culture -- 5. Nature, animals, and the wild -- 6. Conclusions.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.