Dwelling
Subtitle: Heidegger, archaeology, mortality
By: Philip Tonner
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge studies in archaeology; Routledge studies in archaeology
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781315105918
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Phenomenology; Dwellings; Philosophy; Archaeology; Place (Philosophy); Paleolithic period; Cave paintings; Phénoménologie; Habitations; Philosophie; Lieu (Philosophie); HISTORY; Ancient; General
Description: "Dwelling: Heidegger, Archaeology, Mortality negotiates the discourses of phenomenology, archaeology and palaeoanthropology in order to extend the 'dwelling perspective', an approach in the social sciences particularly associated with Tim Ingold and a number of other thinkers, including Chris Tilley, Julian Thomas, Chris Gosden and Clive Gamble, that developed out of an engagement with the thought of Martin Heidegger. This unique book deals with Heidegger's philosophy as it has been explored in archaeology and anthropology, seeking to expand its cross-disciplinary engagement into accounts of early humans and death-awareness. Tonner reads Heidegger's thought of dwelling in connection to recent developments in the archaeology of mortuary practice amongst our ancestors. Agreeing with Heidegger that an awareness of death marks out a distinctive way of 'being-in-the-world', Tonner rejects any relict anthropocentrism in Heidegger's thought and seeks to break down simple divisions between humans and pre-humans. This book is ideal for readers wishing to cross disciplinary boundaries and to challenge anthropocentric thinking in accounts of human evolution. It would be ideal for professional researchers in the fields covered by the book as well as for graduate students and advanced undergraduates."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Heidegger and the dwelling perspective ; 'New archaeology' ; Some recent archaeologies ; Heidegger and three phenomenological archaeologists: Tilley, Gosden and Thomas ; Phenomenology, archaeology and Gamble's Palaeolithic societies of Europe; title: 3. Origins ; Dwelling ; Interpretive archaeology ; Minds ; Mortuary activity in evolutionary perspective; title: 4. Dwelling and mortality ; Heidegger, phenomenology and 'primitive Dasein' ; 5. Modernity, dwelling and phenomenological archaeology ; The Sima de los Huesos as heterotopia ; Phenomenological archaeology ; Anatomically modern humans, evolution and the dwelling perspective ; Dwelling; title: 6. Conclusion; title: Index.