Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations torrent

Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations: Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction, edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.


The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion,
ion, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in contact with
people and things. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or
contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact
actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they
move around, fetch things, use things, leave things etc. The primary focus of the volume is the effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal encounters. All but one text in this volume were presented as working papers at sessions at the Xth and XIth European Association for Archaeologists Meetings in Lyon and Cork respectively


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One
Encounters – Materialities – Confrontations: An Introduction
Per Cornell & Fredrik Fahlander

Chapter Two
Third Space Encounters: Hybridity, Mimicry and Interstitial Practice
Fredrik Fahlander

Chapter Three
Materiality, ‘Ambiguity’ and the Unfamiliar in the Archaeology
of Inter-Societal Confrontations: A Case Study from Northwest Australia
Rodney Harrison

Chapter Four
Dawn of a New Age: The Late Neolithic as Third Space
Jeanette Varberg

Chapter Five
A Microarchaeological Approach to the Social Significance
of Late Bronze Age Burial Practices: Age and Gender
at the Lusatian Urnfield of Cottbus Alvensleben-Kaserne (Germany)
Alexander Gramsch.

Chaper Six
Unhomely Space: Confronting Badiou and Bhabha
Per Cornell

Chapter Seven
Emptiness and Form: A Microarchaeology of Buddhism
Linus Hammarstrand

Chapter Eight
Keeping up Appearances: On the Northern Frontier
in Scandinavian Funnel Beaker Times
Gunlög Graner & Leif Karlenby

Chapter Nine
Lethal Encounters. Warfare and Virtual Ideologies in the Maya Area
Johan Normark

Chapter Ten
The Spread of Middle Eastern Glass
Anna Ihr

Chapter Eleven
The Precious Pottery Disc: Harappan Toy Artefacts as Traces
of Momentary Encounters
Elke Rogersdotter

Chapter Twelve
Gotlandic Picture Stones, Hybritity and Material Culture
Alexander Andreeff

List of Contributors