The Reality Of Artifacts

Author : Michael Chazan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315439266

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The Reality of Artifacts by Michael Chazan Pdf

Artifacts are hybrids, both natural and cultural. They are also an essential component in the process of human evolution. In recent years, a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science, sociology, art history, and anthropology, have all grappled with the nature of artifacts, leading to the emergence of a renewed interdisciplinary focus on material culture. The Reality of Artifacts: An Archaeological Perspective develops an argument for the artifact as a status conferred by human engagement with material. On this basis, artifacts are considered first in terms of their relationship to concepts and cognitive functions, and then to the physical body and sense of self. The book builds on and incorporates the latest developments in archaeological research, particularly from the archaeology of human evolution, and integrates this wealth of new archaeological data with new research in fields such as cognitive science, haptics, and material culture studies. Making the latest research available for the general reader interested in material culture, while also providing archaeologists with new theoretical perspectives built on a synthesis of interdisciplinary research, this book is suitable for courses taught at both graduate and undergraduate students, and is broadly accessible.

Author : Steve Brown,Anne Clarke,Ursula Frederick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315423364

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Object Stories by Steve Brown,Anne Clarke,Ursula Frederick Pdf

Archaeologists are synonymous with artifacts. With artifacts we construct stories concerning past lives and livelihoods, yet we rarely write of deeply personal encounters or of the way the lives of objects and our lives become enmeshed. In this volume, 23 archaeologists each tell an intimate story of their experience and entanglement with an evocative artifact. Artifacts range from a New Britain obsidian tool to an abandoned Viking toy boat, the marble finger of a classical Greek statue and ordinary pottery fragments from Roman England and Polynesia. Other tales cover contemporary objects, including a toothpick, bell, door, and the blueprint for a 1970s motorcar. These creative stories are self-consciously personal; they derive from real world encounter viewed through the peculiarities and material intimacy of archaeological practice. This text can be used in undergraduate and graduate courses focused on archaeological interpretation and theory, as well as on material culture and story-telling.

Author : Anat Rafaeli,Michael G. Pratt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134811304

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Artifacts and Organizations by Anat Rafaeli,Michael G. Pratt Pdf

Artifacts in organizations are ubiquitous but often overlooked. The chapters in this book illustrate that artifacts are everywhere in organizational life. They prevail in how offices are decorated, language is used, business cards are designed, and office cartoons are displayed. In addition, artifacts can be seen in the name of an organization and its employees, products, buildings, processes, and contracts, and they represent people, organizations, and professions. Artifacts and Organizations suggests that artifacts are neither superficial nor pertinent only to organizational culture. They are relevant to a rich and diverse set of organizational processes within and across multiple levels of analysis. Artifacts are shown to be integral to identity, sense-giving and sense-making processes, interpretation and negotiation, legitimacy, and branding. The book seeks to communicate that artifacts are often much more than what is currently recognized in organizational research. The four sections of this edited volume address various aspects of what is known about and known through artifacts. Together, the full set of chapters challenge the field to move beyond a narrow conceptualization and understanding of artifacts in organizations. This book leads students to embrace the full complexity and richness of artifacts. In addition, the text seeks to inspire those who focus on artifacts as symbols to delve deeper into the complexities of artifacts-in-use, for individuals, organizations, and institutions.

Author : Christine Finn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262561549

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Artifacts by Christine Finn Pdf

An archaeologist explores the material culture of Silicon Valley.

Author : Eric Margolis,Stephen Laurence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199250981

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Creations of the Mind by Eric Margolis,Stephen Laurence Pdf

Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen

Author : Pasquale Gagliardi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351487290

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Symbols and Artifacts by Pasquale Gagliardi Pdf

A selection of 18 papers from an international conference in Milan, June 1987, organized by the Standing Conference on Organizational Symbolism. Details how corporate artifacts are invested with meaning, are related to control, and can be used as cultural indicators in research. Among the topics are office design, housing modifications, computer systems, and the space shuttle. Fairly devoid of specialist jargon.

Author : Nicola Masini,Francesco Soldovieri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319505183

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Sensing the Past by Nicola Masini,Francesco Soldovieri Pdf

This book provides a complete overview of novel and state of art sensing technologies and geotechnologies relevant to support management and conservation of CH sites, monuments and works of art. The book is organized in an introduction stating the motivations and presenting the overall content of the volume and four parts. The first part focuses on remote sensing and geophysics for the study of human past and cultural heritage at site scale and as element of the surrounding territory. The second part presents an overview of non invasive technologies for investigating monuments and works of art. The third part presents the new opportunities of ICT for an improved and safe cultural heritage fruition, from the virtual and augmented reality of historical context to artifact tracking. Finally, the forth part presents a significant worldwide set of success cases of the exploitation of the integration of geotechnologies in archeology and architectural heritage management. This book is of interest to researchers, experts of heritage science, archaeologists, students, conservators and other professionals of cultural heritage.

Author : Alessandro Bratus
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498556354

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Mediatization in Popular Music Recorded Artifacts by Alessandro Bratus Pdf

This book investigates the relationship between performance, technological mediation, and the sense of live presence through a series of case studies related to popular music products. Bratus explores the crucial significance of live performance for the construction of a personal, intimate relationship between performers and audiences.

Author : Martin Necas
Publisher : High Frequency Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780987292179

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Artifacts in Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound: Grayscale Artifacts by Martin Necas Pdf

This book is written for sonographers, sonologists, other ultrasound practitioners and students of diagnostic medical ultrasound. The book provides a detailed and clinician-focused overview of the main grayscale artifacts with accompanying descriptions, diagrams, strategies for artifact avoidance and countless examples of clinical images. This book represents the largest collection of ultrasound artifact images ever assembled in a single volume.

Author : William E. Mierse
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440858291

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Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road by William E. Mierse Pdf

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.

Author : Oscar White Muscarella
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004236691

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Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East by Oscar White Muscarella Pdf

Archaeology, Artifacts and Antiquities of the Ancient Near East follows the evolution of Oscar White Muscarella’s scholarly work and interests and is divided into several categories of interrelated fields.

Author : George M. Leader
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798888571118

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Artifacts of Mourning by George M. Leader Pdf

A fascinating, lavishly illustrated account, aimed at a non-specialist audience, of the excavation of over 500 burials unexpectedly discovered during development work associated with the First Baptist Church in Philadelphia. In 2016, construction workers in Philadelphia unexpectedly uncovered a long forgotten burial ground. Archaeologists quickly discovered this was the location of the burial ground of the First Baptist Church of Philadelphia, used as early as 1722. It was thought to have been exhumed and moved in 1859. Months of excavations revealed almost 500 individual burials still remained. This book shares the complex story of the discovery and excavations. It provides backgrounds of the church, Philadelphia, and the religious climate of the time to give context to the thousands of artifacts that were discovered and are presented in their entirety. The numerous coffin handles and plaques link directly back to English production and are embedded with powerful mortuary symbols. Highlighting cultural exchange between colonial America and England, Artifacts of Mourning provides an important record of 18th- and 19th-century funerary culture.

Author : Bo Dahlbom,Svante Beckman,Göran B. Nilsson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112229625

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Artifacts and Artificial Science by Bo Dahlbom,Svante Beckman,Göran B. Nilsson Pdf

In three essays, examine the idea of an artificial science, the nature of artifacts, our artificial world and the example of history as an artificial science.

Author : William Y. Adams,Ernest W. Adams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521048675

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Archaeological Typology and Practical Reality by William Y. Adams,Ernest W. Adams Pdf

A study of the various ways in which field archaeologists set about making and using classifications to meet a variety of practical needs. The authors discuss how humans form concepts. They then describe and analyse in detail a specific example of an archaeological classification, and go on to consider the theoretical generalizations that can be derived from the study of actual in-use classifications.

Author : Julian C. Bleecker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X71364

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The Reality Effect of Technoscience by Julian C. Bleecker Pdf