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Built environments, constructed societies : inverting spatial analysis / Benjamin N. Vis.

By: Vis, Benjamin NMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Leiden : Sidestone Press, c2009. Description: xi, 179 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN: 9789088900389 (pbk.); 9088900388 (pbk.)Other title: Inverting spatial analysisSubject(s): Social archaeology | Archaeology -- Philosophy | Archaeology -- Philosophy | Social archaeologyDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC72.4 | .V57 2009
Contents:
Introduction. Biographic-calls -- Content-wise -- Subjectivist objectification -- ch. 1. Axes of developing societies. Epistemology -- Axis of time : absolute time -- Axis of time : social time -- Axis of time : subjective time -- Axis of human action : disciplined humanism -- Axis of human action : Max Weber -- Axis of human action : Ludwig von Mises -- Axis of human action : Alfred Schutz -- Axis of human action : Michel de Certeau -- Axis of human space : existentialism and embodiment -- Axis of human space : territoriality and proxemics -- Axis of human space : built environment -- Axis of human space : space syntax -- ch. 2. Along disciplinary lines. Foundations of human geography -- New geography, new archaeology -- Present and future discource -- Social evolutionism -- Culture history, culture areas -- ch. 3. Processes of becoming. Time-geography and structuration -- Introducing Allan Pred, criticising Anthony Giddens -- Place and the social -- Place beyond structuration -- Towards place as historically contingent process -- What about the built environment? -- ch. 4. Theorising towards datasets. From regionalisation and culture areas -- Towards regionalisation and culture areas -- Constructing detailed systemisation -- Towards built environments -- ch. 5. Theoretical integration for datasets. Some fundamentals -- Social positioning of spatialities -- Spatial datasets, interpretive issues -- Spatial features -- Boundaries and the macro scale -- [Conclusion]. Disputation of potentialities. Are things stirring in archaeology? -- Basing a theory -- Building a theory -- A methodological turn -- Concluding remarks.
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Originally presented as: Thesis (M.Phil.)--Leiden University, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-179).

Introduction. Biographic-calls -- Content-wise -- Subjectivist objectification -- ch. 1. Axes of developing societies. Epistemology -- Axis of time : absolute time -- Axis of time : social time -- Axis of time : subjective time -- Axis of human action : disciplined humanism -- Axis of human action : Max Weber -- Axis of human action : Ludwig von Mises -- Axis of human action : Alfred Schutz -- Axis of human action : Michel de Certeau -- Axis of human space : existentialism and embodiment -- Axis of human space : territoriality and proxemics -- Axis of human space : built environment -- Axis of human space : space syntax -- ch. 2. Along disciplinary lines. Foundations of human geography -- New geography, new archaeology -- Present and future discource -- Social evolutionism -- Culture history, culture areas -- ch. 3. Processes of becoming. Time-geography and structuration -- Introducing Allan Pred, criticising Anthony Giddens -- Place and the social -- Place beyond structuration -- Towards place as historically contingent process -- What about the built environment? -- ch. 4. Theorising towards datasets. From regionalisation and culture areas -- Towards regionalisation and culture areas -- Constructing detailed systemisation -- Towards built environments -- ch. 5. Theoretical integration for datasets. Some fundamentals -- Social positioning of spatialities -- Spatial datasets, interpretive issues -- Spatial features -- Boundaries and the macro scale -- [Conclusion]. Disputation of potentialities. Are things stirring in archaeology? -- Basing a theory -- Building a theory -- A methodological turn -- Concluding remarks.