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Time, culture and identity : an interpretative archaeology / Julian Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Julian.
- Series:
- Material cultures.
- Material cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Philosophy.
- Archaeology.
- Culture--Philosophy.
- Culture.
- Ethnology--Philosophy.
- Ethnology.
- Neolithic period--Great Britain.
- Neolithic period.
- Great Britain--Antiquities.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 267 p. : ill., maps, plan.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Time, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. 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.
- Contents:
- chapter INTRODUCTION
- part PART ONE A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY?
- chapter 1 After Descartes: Archaeology, culture and nature
- chapter 2 Time and the subject
- chapter 3 Material things and their temporality
- chapter 4 PLACE AND TEMPORALITY
- part PART TWO THREE HISTORIES
- chapter 5 The descent of the British Neolithic
- chapter 6 LATER NEOLITHIC BRITAIN: ARTEFACTS WITH PERSONALITIES
- chapter 7 Time, place and tradition: Mount Pleasant.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-64165-6
- 1-280-32995-5
- 0-203-25888-6
- 1-134-64166-4
- 0-203-05455-5
- 9780203054550
- OCLC:
- 277639622
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