Material Explorations in African Archaeology.
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 46404886
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 978-0199550067
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This work is encyclopaedic in terms of its scope and range of analysis of the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa (e.g. on dental modification drawing upon examples from 5 millennia). Its methodological approach, emphasising less readily-scrutable ‘contents’ rather than ‘objects’, demonstrates the complexity of material culture. The book deploys an eclectic approach to theory, paying close attention to the subjectivity of theorists' use of vocabulary. This results in significant challenges to current perspectives on materiality, exploring in many contexts the scope for a dynamic view of human-object relationships.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- -
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -
