Excavating the mind : cross-sections through culture, cognition and materiality / edited by Niels Johannsen, Mads D. Jessen and Helle Juel Jensen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jensen, Helle Juel

Contributor:

Johannsen, Niels, editor.

Jessen, Mads D., editor.

Juel Jensen, Helle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Congresses.

Material culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages)

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, [2012]

Summary:

Excavating the Mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current developments within sociology, psychology and the cognitive sciences, yet it aims to supplement the focus on modern, predominantly Western societies and individuals with studies of different cultural contexts and processes in the evolutionary and historical past as well as the ethnographic present. With contributions from cognitive and social archaeology as well as anthropology, semiotics and the history of religion, the book combines well-illustrated case studies covering a wide chronological and geographic span - from Neolithic Europe to the present-day South Pacific - with incisive discussion of particular theoretical issues in the study of mind and material culture. Excavating the Mind is an original contribution to the multidisciplinary debate on the uniquely human entanglement of complex material cultures and mental worlds.

Contents:

Debating the mind. Imitation, mirror neurons and material culture / Svend Ostergaard

Boxes or creepers? : containments and entanglements of mind and matter / Tim Ingold

On being more-than-one and doubts about mind / Chris Gosden

Linear B as distributed cognition : excavating a mind not limited by the skin / Lambros Malafouris

Cultural practice, material reference and the generation of meaning. Meaning in miniature : semiotic networks in material culture / Carl Knappett

Of God stones and dance plazas : the material mediation of historical consciousness / Robert W. Preucel

The hall and the church during Christianization : building ideologies and material concepts / Mads D. Jessen

In small things remembered : pottery decoration in Neolithic Southern Italy / John Robb & Kostalena Michelaki

Colourful meaning : terminology, abstraction and the Near East Bronze Age / David A. Warburton

Agency, technology and society. Making daggers and scouting for talents : situated learning ihn Late Neolithic Scandinavia / Deborah Olausson

Decision making and structuration : a study of the minds behind private statues in New Kingdom Egyptian temples / Annette Kjolby

Combined efforts : the cooperation and coordination of barrow-building in the Bronze Age / Mads Kahler Holst & Marianne Rasmussen

Literacy : a tool of modernity and community in Vanuatu / Janet Dixon Keller

Archaeology and the inanimate agency proposition : a critique and a suggestion / Niels Johannsen.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

"Published in collaboration with the Jutland Archaeological Society"--Title page verso

ISBN:

9788771244281

877124428X

OCLC:

1316834433