Reading Material Culture: Structuralism, Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism.

Abstract

Part 1 Structuralism: Claude Levi-Strauss - structuralism and beyond, Christopher Tilley. Part 2 Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur - action, meaning and Henrietta L.Moore Clifford Geertz - toward a more thick understanding?, Eric Kline Silverman. Part 3 Post-structuralism: Roland Barthes - from sign to Bjornar Olsen Jacques Derrida - There is nothing outside of the text, Timothy Yates Michel Foucault - towards an archaeology of archaeology, Christopher Tilley.