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Aegean Bronze Age Art

Meaning in the Making

By: Carl Knappett

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Aegean Bronze Age Art

Meaning in the Making

By: Carl Knappett

Offers an innovative theory for ancient art and its creativity, demonstrated through the rich material and visual culture of the protohistoric Aegean.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108429432

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9781108429436

Thinking Through Material Culture

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

By: Carl Knappett

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Thinking Through Material Culture

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

By: Carl Knappett

Material culture surrounds us and yet is habitually overlooked. So integral is it to our everyday lives that we take it for granted. This attitude has also afflicted the academic analysis of material culture, although this is now beginning to change, with material culture recently emerging as a topic in its own right within the social sciences. Carl Knappett seeks to contribute to this emergent field by adopting a wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach that is rooted in archaeology and integrates anthropology, sociology, art history, semiotics, psychology, and cognitive science. His thesis is that humans both act and think through material culture; ways of knowing and ways of doing are ingrained within even the most mundane of objects. This requires that we adopt a relational perspective on material artifacts and human agents, as a means of characterizing their complex interdependencies. In order to illustrate the networks of meaning that result, Knappett discusses examples ranging from prehistoric Aegean ceramics to Zande hunting nets and contemporary art. Thinking Through Material Culture argues that, although material culture forms the bedrock of archaeology, the discipline has barely begun to address how fundamental artifacts are to human cognition and perception. This idea of codependency among mind, action, and matter opens the way for a novel and dynamic approach to all of material culture, both past and present.

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213

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081220249X

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9780812202496

Hydraulic Fracturing

By: Michael Berry Smith,Carl Montgomery

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Hydraulic Fracturing

By: Michael Berry Smith,Carl Montgomery

Hydraulic Fracturing effectively busts the myths associated with hydraulic fracturing. It explains how to properly engineer and optimize a hydraulically fractured well by selecting the right materials, evaluating the economic benefits of the project, and ensuring the safety and success of the people, environment, and equipment. From data estimation

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793

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CRC Press

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1466566922

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9781466566927

Macro Cultural Psychology

A Political Philosophy of Mind

By: Carl Ratner

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Macro Cultural Psychology

A Political Philosophy of Mind

By: Carl Ratner

This book articulates a bold, new, systematic theory of psychology, culture, and their interrelation. It explains how macro cultural factors -- social institutions, cultural artifacts, and cultural concepts -- are the cornerstones of society and how they form the origins and characteristics of psychological phenomena. This theory is used to explain the diversity of psychological phenomena such as emotions, self, intelligence, sexuality, memory, reasoning, perception, developmental processes, and mental illness. Ratner draws upon Lev Vygotsky's sociocultural psychology, Bronfenbrenner's ecological psychology, as well as work in sociology, anthropology, history, and geography, to explore the political implications and assumptions of psychological theories regarding social policy and reform. The theory outlined here addresses current theoretical and political issues such as agency, realism, objectivity, subjectivism, structuralism, postmodernism, and multiculturalism. In this sense, the book articulates a systematic political philosophy of mind to examine numerous approaches to psychology, including indigenous psychology, cross-cultural psychology, activity theory, discourse analysis, mainstream psychology, and evolutionary psychology.

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Oxford University Press

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0190451858

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Thinking Through Material Culture

An Interdisciplinary Perspective

By: Carl Knappett

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An Interdisciplinary Perspective

By: Carl Knappett

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

A History

By: Jean-Claude Poursat

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

A History

By: Jean-Claude Poursat

The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of the most important civilizations in human history. Jean-Claude Poursat's volume provides a clear path through the rich and varied art and archaeology of Aegean prehistory, from the Neolithic period down to the end of the Bronze Age. Charting the regional differences within the Aegean world, his study covers the full range of material evidence, including architecture, pottery, frescoes, metalwork, stone, and ivory, all lucidly arranged by chapter. With nearly 300 illustrations, this volume is one of the most lavishly illustrated treatments of the subject yet published. Suggestions for further reading provide an up-to-date entry point to the full richness of the subject. Originally published in French, and translated by the author's collaborator Carl Knappett, this edition makes Poursat's deep knowledge of the Aegean Bronze Age available to an English-language audience for the first time.

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Cambridge University Press

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110847134X

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9781108471343

Material Agency

Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

By: Carl Knappett,Lambros Malafouris

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Material Agency

Towards a Non-Anthropocentric Approach

By: Carl Knappett,Lambros Malafouris

Thus far an ‘agent’ in the social sciences has always meant someone whose actions bring about change. In this volume, the editors challenge this position and examine the possibility that agency is not a solely human property. Instead, this collection of archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists explores the symbiotic relationships between humans and material entities (a key opening a door, a speed bump raising a car) as they engage with one another.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387747117

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Ceramic Art

By: Margaret S. Graves,Sequoia Miller,Magdalene Odundo,Vicki Parry

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Ceramic Art

By: Margaret S. Graves,Sequoia Miller,Magdalene Odundo,Vicki Parry

A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of making Concise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay. The story spans history and continents, examining the global traditions of ceramists that range from pre-Columbian Peruvian artisans to contemporary African studio potters. The volume shows how human need gave rise to multiple traditions in earthenware, stoneware, porcelain, glaze, and surface decoration from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Essays describe the core materials and practice of ceramics, followed by consideration of its production, consumption, and use. Throughout, the focus is on the power of materials and the role conservation plays in the afterlife of a ceramic object. An accessible introduction to an ancient practice, Ceramic Art offers new ways of thinking about the broader forces that have shaped the traditions of the medium.

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Princeton University Press

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0691247439

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9780691247434

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Aegean Bronze Age Art

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Macro Cultural Psychology

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The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age

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