Excavating The Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition & Materiality - Softcover

Holst, Mads Kahler; Johansen, Niels N.; Jensen, Helle Juel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8779342175 ISBN 13: 9788779342170

Publisher: Aarhus University Press, 2012

Synopsis

This book deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasising the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current developments within sociology, psychology and the cognitive sciences, yet it aims to supplement the focus on modern, predominantly Western societies and individuals with studies of different cultural contexts and processes in the evolutionary and historical past as well as the ethnographic present. With contributions from cognitive and social archaeology as well as anthropology, semiotics and the history of religion, the book combines well-illustrated case studies covering a wide chronological and geographic span - from Neolithic Europe to the present-day South Pacific - with incisive discussion of particular theoretical issues in the study of mind and material culture. This is an original contribution to the multidisciplinary debate on the uniquely human entanglement of complex material cultures and mental worlds.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aarhus University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8779342175
• ISBN 13: 9788779342170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200