The emergent past : a relational realist archaeology of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices / Chris Fowler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fowler, Chris, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tombs--England, North East.

Tombs.

Copper age--England, North East.

Copper age.

Bronze age--England, North East.

Bronze age.

Excavations (Archaeology)--England, North East.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

England, North East--Antiquities.

England, North East.

Physical Description:

xii, 333 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press 2013.

Summary:

This book approaches archaeological research as an engagement within an assemblage - a particular configuration of materials, things, places, humans, animals, plants, techniques, technologies, forces, and ideas. Fowler develops a new interpretative method for that engagement, exploring how archaeological research can, and does, reconfigure each assemblage. Recognising the successive relationships that give rise to and reshaped assemblages over time, he proposes a relational realist understanding of archaeological evidence based on a reading of relational and non-representational theories, such as those presented by Karen Barad, Tim Ingold, and Bruno Latour. The volume explores this new approach through the first ever synthesis of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in Northeast England (c.2500-1500 BC), taking into account how different concepts and practices have changed the assemblage of Early Bronze Age mortuary practices in the past 200 years.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199656370

0199656371

OCLC:

858804538