Memory and Material Culture

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
1 Memory and Material
Culture?......Page 17
The Contents of This Book......Page 18
External Symbolic Storage......Page 21
Problems with the Notion of Externality and Storage......Page 22
Material Culture, Mind, and Symbolism......Page 28
Reading and Rereading    Material Culture......Page 30
An Archaeology of Traces......Page 35
Artefacts as Indices of the Past......Page 38
2 From Memory to Commemoration......Page 43
Memory and Remembering......Page 47
Fetishism and Materiality......Page 48
Artefacts and the Practices of Remembering and Forgetting......Page 55
Remembering Things Together......Page 57
Technologies of Remembrance......Page 58
Commemoration, Material Culture, and Collective Remembrance......Page 60
3 People, Time, and Remembrance......Page 63
Materialising Time......Page 66
Evocation and Remembrance......Page 72
Performing Remembrance......Page 77
Performance and Person......Page 82
4 Improvising Culture......Page 86
Culture: An Open-and Shut Case?......Page 87
Substantive Approaches to Culture......Page 88
Analytic Approaches to Culture......Page 92
Beyond Context: Rethinking Contextual Archaeology......Page 94
Open and Closed Views of Culture: The Example of Musical Practice......Page 101
Tradition and Invention......Page 102
Artefacts as Networks......Page 105
5 Continuous Houses, Perpetual Places: Commemoration and the Lives
of Neolithic Houses......Page 107
Houses and Settlements of the Linear Pottery Culture......Page 109
After the Linear Pottery Culture -- Commemoration and the Transformation of the House......Page 121
Playing with Fire -- Fire and the Scottish Neolithic......Page 124
Keeping the Flame......Page 128
Imagined Communities: Commemoration and the Person in the Neolithic of Central Europe and Scotland......Page 134
6 Culture, Citation, and Categorisation: Regionality in Late Neolithic Britain
and Ireland......Page 138
Culture and Categorisation......Page 139
Case Study: Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age Britain and Ireland......Page 141
Rewriting Neolithic and Bronze Age Histories: Orkney and the Western Isles......Page 143
Grooved Ware and Beakers in Ireland......Page 151
Conclusion......Page 154
7 Chains of Memory: The Aesthetics of Memory in Bronze Age
Britain......Page 157
Bronze Age Artefact Assemblages......Page 159
Aesthetics, Deposition, and Burial in the British Bronze Age......Page 160
A Tale of Two Cemeteries......Page 164
Powerful Pots and Magic Metal......Page 170
Technologies of Remembrance: Citation, Aesthetics, and Memory in the Past and Present......Page 175
8 The Art of Memory: Memory, Inscription, and Place......Page 178
Writing without Words......Page 179
Inscriptions and Place......Page 181
Systematising Memory: The Case of the Slate Plaques of Prehistoric Iberia......Page 184
Stasis and Process: Remembering Passage Tomb Art......Page 189
Making and Remaking Passage Tomb Art......Page 192
Superimposition, Location, and Technique......Page 193
The Incorporation of Art......Page 196
Passage Tomb Art, Performance, and Place......Page 198
Conclusion......Page 204
9 Tracing the Past: Landscape, Lines, and Places......Page 206
The Analysis of Images......Page 212
Lines in the Landscape: The Study of Prehistoric Rock Art......Page 213
Prehistoric Rock Art of Northern Scandinavia/Russia......Page 215
British Prehistoric Rock Art......Page 222
Images and Landscape in the Prehistoric Landscape of Kilmartin......Page 224
Temporalising the Landscape of Kilmartin......Page 235
Rock Art, Semiotics, and Place......Page 237
Rock Art, Remembrance, and Place......Page 238
10 Coda......Page 239
Re-membering things......Page 240
The Significance of the Index: Artefacts, Assemblages, Places, Landscapes......Page 241
References......Page 245
Index......Page 267