Built environments, constructed societies : inverted spatial analysis / Benjamin N. Vis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vis, Benjamin N.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Archaeology, as the discipline that searches to explain the development of society by means of material remains, has been avoiding the big issues involved with its research agenda. The topic of social evolution is concealed by anxiety about previous paradigmatic malpractice and the primary archaeological division of the world in culture areas still suffers from the archaic methods by which it was established. Archaeological inference of developing societies is weighed down by its choice of particularism within agency approaches and overtly reductionist due to the prevalence of statistical,

Contents:

Biographic-calls

Content-wise

Subjectivist Objectification

Chapter 1. Axes of Developing Societies

Epistemology

Axis of Time - Absolute Time

Axis of Time - Social Time

Axis of Time - Subjective Time

Axis of Human Action - Disciplined Humanism

Axis of Human Action - Max Weber

Axis of Human Action - Ludwig von Mises

Axis of Human Action - Alfred Schutz

Axis of Human Action - Michel de Certeau

Axis of Human Space - Existentialism and Embodiment

Axis of Human Space - Territoriality and Proxemics

Axis of Human Space - Built Environment

Axis of Human Space - Space Syntax

Chapter 2. Along Disciplinary Lines

Foundations of Human Geography

New Geography, New Archaeology

Present and Future Discource

Social Evolutionism

Culture History, Culture Areas

Chapter 3. Processes of Becoming

Time-geography and Structuration

Introducing Allan Pred, Criticising Anthony Giddens

Place and the Social

Place beyond Structuration

Towards Place as Historically Contingent Process

What about the Built Environment?

Chapter 4. Theorising towards Datasets

From Regionalisation and Culture Areas

Towards Regionalisation and Culture Areas

Constructing Detailed Systemisation

Towards Built Environments

Chapter 5. Theoretical Integration for Datasets

Some Fundamentals

Social Positioning of Spatialities

Spatial Datasets, Interpretive Issues

Spatial Features

Boundaries and the Macro Scale

Disputation of Potentialities

Are Things Stirring in Archaeology?

Basing a Theory

Building a Theory

A Methodological Turn

Concluding Remarks.

Notes:

Originally presented as: Thesis (M.Phil.)--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-179).

ISBN:

1-299-28190-7

90-8890-131-7

OCLC:

830162117