In defense of things : archaeology and the ontology of objects / Bjørnar Olsen.
In much recent thinking, social and cultural realms are thought of as existing prior to--or detached from--things, materiality, and landscape. It is often assumed, for example, that things are entirely "constructed" by social or cultural perceptions and have no existence in and of themselv...
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Table of Contents:
- Brothers in arms?: archaeology and material culture studies
- Material culture as text: scenes from a troubled engagement
- The phenomenology of things
- Tacit matter: the silencing of things
- Temporality and memory: how things remember
- Living with things: matter in place
- In defense of things.