Encounters, materialities, confrontations : archaeologies of social space and interaction / edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cornell, Per.

Fahlander, Fredrik.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Archaeology and history.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things, use things, leave th

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-02959-2

9786612029592

1-4438-0410-X

OCLC:

830168561