Hodder Ian. Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things

Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 264 p.A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity ofthe human relationship with material things, demonstrating howhumans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance andsustaining of material worlds
- Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is adefining characteristic of human history and culture
- Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes ofthings without succumbing to materialism
- Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionarytheory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible andincrease in scale and complexity over time
- Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theoriesin archaeology and related natural and biological sciences
- Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporaryperspectives from materiality, material culture studies andphenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology,cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor NetworkTheory and complexity theoryIan Hodder is Dunlevie Family Professor in the Department ofAnthropology at Stanford University. Previously he was Professor ofArchaeology at Cambridge. His main large-scale excavation projectshave been at Haddenham in the east of England and atÇatalhöyük in Turkey. He has been awarded severalawards and honorary degrees.