Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism (Social Archaeology)

Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism (Social Archaeology) by Tilley, Christopher. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780631172857.

Central to any understanding of the significance of material objects, whether contemporary or prehistoric, is a discussion of the very nature of interpretation itself: how we read artefacts and inscribe them into the present. This book examines the complex relations between material culture, social structures and social practices from structuralist, hermeneutical and post-structuralist viewpoints.