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Archaeological Semiotics

Archaeological Semiotics

Paperback

Series: Social Archaeology, Book 5

Archaeology

ISBN10: 140519913X
ISBN13: 9781405199131
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Apr 16 2010
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology's 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.

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