Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution

摘要

In Material Cultures, Material Minds, Nicole Boivin invites readers to rethink fundamental relationships between people and material culture. With indifference to disciplinary boundaries, her highly original synthesis shows how the material world "plays and has long played a fundamental role in shaping human thought, society and, over the long term, evolution" (p. 225). A post-processualist archaeologist trained at Cambridge University, Boivin became adept at treating material culture as a symbolic medium. Her specialty, however, is geoarchaeology, the study of soils.