Material Culture and Sacred Landscape
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Author_Peter Jordan
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- ISBN 9780759102774
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 145 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2003
- Publisher: AltaMira Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.
Peter Jordan is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology, University of Aberdeen .
