AAP6153   Materialising Culture: Agents, Things and Social Processes   (15 credits)

Description

This module examines the key concepts of innovation, production, exchange and consumption of material culture. This is achieved through considering a series of archaeological case studies, where objects and craft practice are embedded within their cultural context. Building on a firm theoretical background, the case studies vary from ceramics in the Neolithic through to the Post-medieval world. The module highlights these major concepts which form the basis of an understanding of society through the interaction of humans with their material world.

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