| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
An introduction to relational personhood and other-than-human agency in archaeology / Eleanor Harrison-Buck and Julia A. Hendon -- Personhood and agency in Eskimo interactions with the other-than-human / Erica Hill -- Dead kettles and Indigenous afterworlds in early colonial encounters in the Maritimes / Meghan C.L. Howey -- Water and shells in bodies and pots : Mississippian rhizome, Cahokian poiesis / Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt -- The inalienable-commodity continuum in the circulation of birds in the North American Plains / María Nieves Zedeño, Wendi Field Murray, and Kaitlyn Chandler -- Objects with voices among the ancient Maya / Matthew Looper -- Can tools have souls? : Maya views on the relations between human and other-than-human persons / Julia A. Hendon -- Torres Strait canoes as social and predatory object-beings / Ian J. McNiven -- Efficacious objects and techniques of the subject : "ornaments" and their depositional contexts in Banda, Ghana / Ann B. Stahl -- Finding objects, making persons : fossils in British Early Bronze Age burials / Joanna Brück and Andrew Meirion Jones -- Relational matters of being : personhood and agency in archaeology / Eleanor Harrison-Buck |
| Summary |
"Explores benefits and consequences of archaeological theorizing on and interpretation of social agency of non-humans as relational beings capable of producing change in the world. Cross-examines traditional understanding of agency and personhood, presenting globally diverse case studies that cover a range of cultural, geographical, and historical contexts"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 30, 2018) |
| Subject |
Social archaeology -- Case studies
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Agent (Philosophy) -- Case studies
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Material culture -- Philosophy
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Archaeology -- Philosophy.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Archaeology -- Philosophy
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Social archaeology
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Harrison-Buck, Eleanor, editor.
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Hendon, Julia A. (Julia Ann), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781607327479 |
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1607327473 |
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