Encounters, materialities, confrontations : archaeologies of social space and interaction /

Encounters, materialities, confrontations : archaeologies of social space and interaction / edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander. - Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. - 1 online resource (vi, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps

Includes bibliographical references.

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

This collection of texts is a first step towards providing a theoretical and methodological platform for the study of social encounters. The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion, tension, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in situations of contact when people and things interact. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they move around, fetch things, use things, leave th.


English.

9781443804103 (electronic bk.) 144380410X (electronic bk.) 9786612029592 6612029595




Social archaeology.
Archéologie sociale.
HISTORY--Ancient--General.
Social archaeology.
Sozialarchäologie


Electronic books.

CC72.4 / .E53 2007

930.1

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