Material Evidence Learning from Archaelogical Practice

Afbeeldingen
Artikel vergelijken
  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780415837453
  • 17 december 2014
  • 361 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

Material Evidence takes a resolutely case-based approach, exploring key instances of exemplary practice, critical turning points, and innovative developments in the use of archaeological data as evidence. In doing so, it identifies norms of evidential reasoning that underpin judgments of epistemic credibility in archaeology.





How do archaeologists make effective use of physical traces and material culture as repositories of evidence?

Material Evidence takes a resolutely case-based approach to this question, exploring instances of exemplary practice, key challenges, instructive failures, and innovative developments in the use of archaeological data as evidence. The goal is to bring to the surface the wisdom of practice, teasing out norms of archaeological reasoning from evidence.

Archaeologists make compelling use of an enormously diverse range of material evidence, from garbage dumps to monuments, from finely crafted artifacts rich with cultural significance to the detritus of everyday life and the inadvertent transformation of landscapes over the long term. Each contributor to Material Evidence identifies a particular type of evidence with which they grapple and considers, with reference to concrete examples, how archaeologists construct evidential claims, critically assess them, and bring them to bear on pivotal questions about the cultural past.

Historians, cultural anthropologists, philosophers, and science studies scholars are increasingly interested in working with material things as objects of inquiry and as evidence – and they acknowledge on all sides just how challenging this is. One of the central messages of the book is that close analysis of archaeological best practice can yield constructive guidelines for practice that have much to offer archaeologists and those in related fields.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
17 december 2014
Aantal pagina's
361
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Robert Chapman
Hoofdredacteur
Robert Chapman
Tweede Redacteur
Alison Wylie
Hoofduitgeverij
Taylor & Francis

Overige kenmerken

Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
159 mm
Product hoogte
25 mm
Product lengte
235 mm
Studieboek
Ja
Verpakking breedte
159 mm
Verpakking hoogte
25 mm
Verpakking lengte
235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
703 g

EAN

EAN
9780415837453

Je vindt dit artikel in

Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Beschikbaarheid
Leverbaar
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken
Nog geen reviews
Kies gewenste uitvoering
Prijsinformatie en bestellen
De prijs van dit product is 154 euro en 99 cent.
2 - 3 weken
Verkoop door bol
  • Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door bol
  • Ophalen bij een bol afhaalpunt mogelijk
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
  • Dag en nacht klantenservice