Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 215 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783030693886
Series Statement:
Themes in contemporary archaeology
Content:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- 1: Fluid to Solid - Petrification as an Interpretive Concept for Social and Material Change -- 1.1 Part I. Pinpointing Processes - Petrification in Theory -- 1.2 Part IIa. From Geology to Archaeology - Overcoming the Nature-Culture Divide -- 1.3 Part IIb. Petrification Processes in Prehistory - Stones, Sedentariness, and Salt -- 1.4 Part III. Petrification Processes in Historic Periods - Stones, States, and the Sacred -- 1.5 Processes and Prospects -- References -- Part I: Concepts/Approaches -- 2: Petrification - A Concrete Concept for Past Process Comparison -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Term in Colloquial, Literary, Artistic, and Academic Uses -- 2.3 Defining Characteristics -- 2.4 The Concept of 'Petrification' - Examples -- 2.4.1 Petrification of Drinking Vessels: From Scoop to Cup to Coffee Service -- 2.4.2 Petrification of Food and Foodways: From Meat to Meal to Mineral -- 2.5 A New Concept with Preceding Similar Approaches -- 2.5.1 'Solid and Liquid' as Mind-Metaphor in Egyptology -- 2.5.2 'The Idea of Order' and 'The Archaeology of Space' in Prehistory -- 2.5.3 'Conversion and Consolidation' in Medieval Archaeology -- 2.5.4 'Liquid Modernity' in Social Anthropology -- 2.6 'Hard' Science - The Petrification of Research Methodology -- 2.6.1 Perpetuated Past Perspectives - Newton and Linnaeus -- 2.6.2 Collections, Catalogues, Categorizations, and Classifications -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Solid Change. Aspects of Petrification in Transformation Processes of Matter and Society -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Petrifying Societies: Social Change -- 3.3 Petrified Societies: Change, Innovation, and Boundaries -- 3.4 Petrifying Objects: Polysemy, Control and Commodification -- 3.5 Petrified Objects: From Imitation to Irritation, from Iconic to Ironic.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030693879
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Petrification Processes in Matter and Society Cham : Springer, 2021 ISBN 9783030693879
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030693886
Language:
English
Subjects:
Earth Sciences
Keywords:
Archäologie
;
Fossilisation
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Hüglin, Sophie 1965-
Author information:
Gramsch, Alexander
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