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material culture as text: a standalone construct

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Archaeology

the analogy that treats objects as signs to be read and interpreted like a written text, examined here along with its limits.

In archaeology, material culture as text refers to the analogy that treats objects as signs to be read and interpreted like a written text, examined here along with its limits. This meaning comes from Hodder (1989) in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.[1]

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References

Hodder, I. (1989). This is not an article about material culture as text. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 8(3), 250-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/0278-4165(89)90015-9

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