Excavating the Mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current developments within sociology, psychology and the cognitive sciences, yet it aims to supplement the focus on modern, predominantly Western societies and individuals with studies of different cultural contexts and processes in the evolutionary and historical past as well as the ethnographic present. With contributions from cognitive and social archaeology as well as anthropology, semiotics and the history of religion, the book combines well-illustrated case studies covering a wide chronological and geographic span - from Neolithic Europe to the present-day South Pacific - with incisive discussion of particular theoretical issues in the study of mind and material culture. Excavating the Mind is an original contribution to the multidisciplinary debate on the uniquely human entanglement of complex material cultures and mental worlds.

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Cover
Title page
Colophon
Content
List of contributors
Editors’ acknowledgements
Introduction
Mads D. Jessen & Helle J. Jensen
Debating the mind
Imitation, Mirror Neurons and Material Culture
Svend Østergaard
Boxes or Creepers? Containments and entanglements of mind and matter
Tim Ingold
On Being More-Than-One and Doubts About Mind
Chris Gosden
Linear B as Distributed Cognition: Excavating a mind not limited by the skin
Lambros Malafouris
Cultural practice, material reference and the generation of meaning
Meaning in Miniature: Semiotic networks in material culture
Carl Knappett
Of God Stones and Dance Plazas: The material mediation of historical consciousness
Robert W. Preucel
The Hall and the Church during Christianization: Building ideologies and material concepts
Mads D. Jessen
In Small Things Remembered: Pottery decoration in Neolithic Southern Italy
John Robb & Kostalena Michelaki
Colourful Meaning: Terminology, abstraction and the Near Eastern Bronze Age
David A. Warburton
Agency, technology and society
Making Daggers and Scouting for Talents: Situated learning in Late Neolithic Scandinavia
Deborah Olausson
Decision-making and Structuration: A study of the minds behind private statues in New Kingdom Egyptian temples
Annette Kjølby
Combined Efforts: The cooperation and coordination of barrow‑building in the Bronze Age
Mads Kähler Holst & Marianne Rasmussen
Literacy: A tool of modernity and community in Vanuatu
Janet Dixon Keller
Archaeology and the Inanimate Agency Proposition: a critique and a suggestion
Niels Johannsen

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