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Domestication of Europe: Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies (Social Archaeology) - Tapa blanda

Hodder, Ian

 
9780631177692: Domestication of Europe: Structure and Contingency in Neolithic Societies (Social Archaeology)
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ISBN 10: 0631177698 ISBN 13: 9780631177692
Editorial: John Wiley & Sons, 1990

Sinopsis

The Neolithic saw the spread of the first farmers, and the formation of settled villages throughout Europe. Traditional archaeology has interpreted these changes in terms of population growth, economic pressures and social competition, but in "The Domestication of Europe" Ian Hodder works from a new, controversial theory focusing instead on the enormous expansion of symbolic evidence from the homes, settlements and burials of the period. Why do the figurines, decorated pottery, elaborate houses and burial rituals appear and what is their significance? The author argues that the symbolism of the Neolithic must be interpreted if we are to understand adequately the associated social and economic changes. He suggests that both in Europe and the Near East a particular set of concepts was central to the origins of farming and a settled mode of life. These concepts relate to the house and home - termed "domus" - and they provided a metaphor and a mechanism for social and economic transformation. As the wild was brought in and domesticated through ideas and practices surrounding the domus, people were brought in and settled into the social and economic group of the village. Over the following millennia cultural practices relating to the domus continued to change and develop, until finally overtaken by a new set of concepts which became socially central, based on the warrior, the hunter and the wild.

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Ian Hodder FBA is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990.

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John Wiley & Sons
Año de publicación
1990
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ISBN 10 
0631177698
ISBN 13 
9780631177692
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Número de páginas
344
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9780631174134: The Domestication in Europe (Social Archaeology)

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ISBN 10:  0631174133 ISBN 13:  9780631174134
Editorial: Blackwell Publishers, 1990
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