Abstract: |
Five authors use the work of contemporary thinkers to examine the complex relationships between material culture, social structures, and social practices from structuralist, hermeneutic, and post-structural viewpoints. They discuss the nature of time and history; discourse and textuality; the process of subjectivity; and the politics of academic production. Each chapter concludes with an assessment of the theorist's relevance to the future of material culture studies in the 1990s. The six papers are: c Tilley (1-81), 'Claude Levi-Strauss: structuralism and beyond'; Henrietta Moore (85-120), 'Paul Ricoeur: action, meaning and text'; Eric Kline Silverman (121-59), 'Clifford Geertz: towards a more 'thick' understanding?'; Bjørnar Olsen (163-205), 'Roland Barthes: from sign to text'; Timothy Yates (206-80), 'Jacques Derrida: "There is nothing outside of the text" '; and c Tilley again (281-347), 'Michel Foucault: towards an archaeology of archaeology'. |