Time, Culture, and Identity: An Interpretative Archaeology
Drawing on the work of Heidegger, Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emerging identities of people and things, and the temporal structures of humans, places and artefacts as radically similar.Throughout its history, time, material culture and human identity have been central concerns of archaeology. These issues are fundamental to the discipline, and yet they are rarely explicitly discussed together.Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between nature/culture, mind/body, and object/subject, arguing that in important senses the temporal structures of human beings, artefacts and places are radically similar. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects.
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After Descartes Archaeology culture and nature
Time and the subject
Material things and their temporality
Place and temporality
The descent of the British Neolithic
Later Neolithic Britain Artefacts with personalities
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activities archaeological record argue argument artefacts aspects assemblages associated axes bank barrows Barrett Beaker Binford Bogucki bones Brzesc Kujawski burials causewayed enclosures ceramic chalk character communities complex conception concerned connected consequence construction context Dasein decoration defined deposition distinct ditch Dyffryn Ardudwy Early Bronze Age emergence enclosure engaged entities evidence existence Figure flint Foucault fundamental funerary Grooved Ware groups Heidegger 1962 Heidegger's henge houses identity implies involved kind La Hoguette landscape later Neolithic long mound maceheads Maiden Castle material culture material things means Mesolithic monuments Mount Pleasant nature north European plain notion objects palisade particular past pattern persons Peterborough Ware pits pottery practice present recognise relations relationships represent round barrow sense separate settlement sherds significance social society space spatial stone structure styles suggest symbolic temporality timber circle tombs traditions transformed understanding vessels Wainwright 1979 Wessex
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