Archaeology
The central question this book seeks to explore is this: Are we trying to reconstruct a past in our own image, chained solely to our own unacknowledged emotional, intellectual, and philosophical traditions, or should we attempt to look beyond this at the fundamental concepts we often take for granted, but which if recognised as constructs of the relatively recent past, might begin to allow us to acknowledge our limitations and potentially to engage more profitably with archaeological evidence in various ways. The end result is not another nihilist offeringbased on a post-modernist collapsed perspective, but rather a considered approach, ultim…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7156-3457-8
- EAN: 9780715634578
- Produktnummer: 33880343
- Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.4 cm 188 g
- Gewicht: 188
Über den Autor
Timothy Insoll is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Manchester. His works include Archaeology, Ritual, Religion (Routledge, 2004) and The Archaeology of Islam (Blackwells, 1999. He has published over 70 academic papers, notes, and reviews, and has made two short films, 'The Carnelian Beads of Khambhat' (2002), and 'Archaeology and Sacrifice' (2005).
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