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100			_aHodder, Ian
245			_aSymbols in action: ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture
260			_aCambridge: _bCambridge University Press, _c2009.
300			_ax, 244p.: _bill., maps; pbk.: _c23 cm.
440			_aNew Studies in Archaeology
504			_aIncludes Bibliography and Index.
520			_aMaterial culture - the objects made by man - provides the primary data from which archaeologists have to infer the economies, technologies, social organization and ritual practices of extinct societies. The analysis and interpretation of material culture is therefore central to any concern with archaeological theory and methodology, and in order to understand better the relationship between material culture and human behaviour, archaeologists need to draw upon models derived from the study of ethnographic societies. First published in 1982, this book presents the results of a series of field investigations carried out in Kenya, Zambia and the Sudan into the 'archaeological' remains and material culture of contemporary small-scale societies, and demonstrates the way in which objects are used as symbols within social action and within particular world views and ideologies. https://www.cambridge.org/in/universitypress/subjects/archaeology/archaeology-general-interest/symbols-action-ethnoarchaeological-studies-material-culture?format=PB&isbn=9780521105088
650			_aHuman Behaviour
650			_aAfrican Case Studies
650			_aSmall-Scale Societies
650			_aEthnographic Fieldwork
650			_aRitual Practices
650			_aCultural Anthropology
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