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  3. Symbolic and Structural Archaeology
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      • Edited by Ian Hodder, Stanford University, California
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2010
      August 1982
      ISBN:
      9780511558252
      9780521035507
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558252
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      Dimensions:
      (275 x 215 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.472kg, 200 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology
      Series:
      New Directions in Archaeology
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    Subjects:
    Archaeological Theory and Methods, Archaeology: General Interest, Archaeology
    Series:
    New Directions in Archaeology
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    This volume presents a searching critique of the more traditional archaeological methodologies and interpretation strategies and lays down a firm philosophical and theoretical basis for symbolist and structuralist studies in archaeology. A variety of procedures, ranging from ethnoarchaeological studies and computing techniques to formal studies of artefact design variability, are utilized to provide models for archaeologists within the proposed framework and the theory and models are then applied to a range of archaeological analyses. This particular approach sees all human actions as being meaningfully constituted within a social and cultural framework. Material culture is not simply an adaptive tool, but is structured according to sets of underlying principles which give meaning to, and derive meanings from, the social world. Thus structural regularities are shown to link seemingly disparate aspects of material culture, from funerary monuments to artefact design, from the use of space in settlements, to the form of economic practices.

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