Memory and material culture / Andrew Jones.
Material type: TextSeries: Topics in contemporary archaeologyPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007. Description: xiii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521837088 (hardback); 0521837081 (hardback); 9780521545518 (pbk.); 052154551X (pbk.)Subject(s): Prehistoric peoples -- Europe | Material culture -- Europe | Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Europe | Europe -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 936 LOC classification: GN803 | .J66 2007Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-250) and index.
Memory and material culture? -- From memory to commemoration -- People, time and remembrance -- Improvising culture -- Continuous houses, perpetual places -- Culture, citation and categorisation -- Chains of memory -- The art of memory -- Tracing the past -- Coda.
Andrew Jones argues that the material world offers a vital framework for the formation of collective memory. He uses the topic of memory to critique the treatment of artifacts as symbols by interpretative archaeologists and artifacts as units by behavioural archaeologists.