Archaeological Semiotics

Brand: Wiley-Blackwell

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UPC:
9781405199131
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
4/26/2010
Release Date:
4/16/2010
Author:
Robert W. Preucel
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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This interdisciplinary book examines archaeologys engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology. Its central thesis is that archaeology is a distinctive kind of semiotic enterprise; one devoted to giving meaning to the past in the present through the study of materiality. It compliments standard studies of linguistics and reformulates contemporary theories of material culture.