Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically
described, interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change
has been under-theorised. The study of change is central to the
discipline of archaeology, but change is complex, and this makes it
challenging to write about in nuanced ways that effectively capture
the nature of our world. Relational approaches offer archaeologists
more scope to explore change in complex and subtle ways. Change and
Archaeology presents a posthumanist, post-anthropocentric, new
materialist approach to change. It argues that our world is constantly
in the process of becoming and always on the move. By recasting change
as the norm rather than the exception and distributing it between both
humans and non-humans, this book offers a new theoretical framework
for exploring change in the past that allows us to move beyond
block-time approaches where change is located only in transitional
moments and periods are characterised by blocks of stasis.
Archaeologists, scholars, anthropologists and historians interested in
the theoretical frameworks we use to interpret the past will find this
book a fascinating new insight into the way our world changes and
evolves. The approaches presented within will be of use to anyone
studying and writing about the way societies and their environs move
through time.
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ISBN
9781351869294
Publisert
2020
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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