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Thinking about Production: Phenomenological Classification and Lexical Semantics
Author(s) -
Costin Cathy Lynne
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
archeological papers of the american anthropological association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1551-8248
pISSN - 1551-823X
DOI - 10.1525/ap3a.2007.17.1.143
Subject(s) - salience (neuroscience) , epistemology , production (economics) , process (computing) , cognitive science , discipline , semantics (computer science) , sociology , psychology , linguistics , computer science , cognitive psychology , social science , philosophy , economics , macroeconomics , programming language , operating system
Evaluating and rethinking central disciplinary ideas is an essential part of the process of developing knowledge and understanding. Part of the process is the consideration of how we define and classify the phenomena we study. Many of the chapters in this book explore the continuing salience of entrenched ideas about production and offer up either reworked definitions or new categories of objects and behaviors related to production. Careful reflection on these essays reveals why it is equally important to consider how we identify these phenomena in archaeological contexts.