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Title Excavating the mind : cross-sections through culture, cognition and materiality / edited by Niels Johannsen, Mads D. Jessen, & Helle Juel Jensen
Published Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (347 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Debating the mind. Imitation, mirror neurons and material culture / Svend Østergaard -- Boxes or creepers? : containments and entanglements of mind and matter / Tim Ingold -- On being more-than-one and doubts about mind / Chris Gosden -- Linear B as distributed cognition : excavating a mind not limited by the skin / Lambros Malafouris -- Cultural practice, material reference and the generation of meaning. Meaning in miniature : semiotic networks in material culture / Carl Knappett -- Of God stones and dance plazas : the material mediation of historical consciousness / Robert W. Preucel -- The hall and the church during Christianization : building ideologies and material concepts / Mads D. Jessen -- In small things remembered : pottery decoration in Neolithic Southern Italy / John Robb & Kostalena Michelaki -- Colourful meaning : terminology, abstraction and the Near East Bronze Age / David A. Warburton -- Agency, technology and society. Making daggers and scouting for talents : situated learning ihn Late Neolithic Scandinavia / Deborah Olausson -- Decision making and structuration : a study of the minds behind private statues in New Kingdom Egyptian temples / Annette Kjølby -- Combined efforts : the cooperation and coordination of barrow-building in the Bronze Age / Mads Kahler Holst & Marianne Rasmussen -- Literacy : a tool of modernity and community in Vanuatu / Janet Dixon Keller -- Archaeology and the inanimate agency proposition : a critique and a suggestion / Niels Johannsen
Notes "Published in collaboration with the Jutland Archaeological Society"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Material culture.
Cognition and culture.
Cognition -- Social aspects
Mind and reality.
material culture (discipline)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Cognition and culture
Cognition -- Social aspects
Material culture
Mind and reality
Kulturanthropologie
Anthropologie
Kognition
Materialität
Leib-Seele-Problem
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Johannsen, Niels, editor
Jessen, Mads D., editor
Juel Jensen, Helle, editor
Østergaard, Svend. Imitation, mirror neurons and material culture
Jysk arkæologisk selskab.
ISBN 9788771244281
877124428X