Entangled : A New Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things

Offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the theory of material entanglement and entrapment, enriched with vivid examples from everyday life Entangled explores how archaeological evidence can help provide a better understanding of the direction of human social and technological change, demonstrating how the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture.Using examples drawn from both the early farming settlements of the Middle East and daily life in the modern world, Ian Hodder highlights the complex co-dependencies of humans and things-arguing that the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds are the unseen drivers of human development.Updated and expanded, Entangled offers new perspectives on the study of the relationality between things and humans.In this edition, the author reframes relationality in terms of various forms of dependence to better explore inequality, injustice, and the ways people get entrapped in de