Time, Culture and Identity: An Interpretative ArchaeologyTime, Culture and Identity questions the modern western distinctions between: * nature and culture * mind and body * object and subject. Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Julian Thomas develops a way of writing about the past in which time is seen as central to the emergence of the identities of people and objects. |
Contents
After Descartes Archaeology culture and nature | 11 |
Time and the subject | 31 |
Material things and their temporality | 55 |
Place and temporality | 83 |
The descent of the British Neolithic | 95 |
Later Neolithic Britain Artefacts with personalities | 141 |
Time place and tradition Mount Pleasant | 183 |
Archaeology and meaning | 234 |
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