Now published: Journal of Iberian Archaeology 9/10 (2006/2007) Special Issue: Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture: Proceedings of the TAG session, Exeter 2006. edited by Vitor Oliveira Jorge and Julian Thomas, with a commentary by Tim Ingold Further details from Vitor Oliveira Jorge - email [log in to unmask] Table of Contents Editorial Julian Thomas and Vitor Oliveira Jorge The Trouble with Material Culture Julian Thomas The unbearable lightness of prehistory. Archaeological reflections on material culture and time Gavin Lucas From purification to mediation: overcoming artificial 'otherness' with and in actor-network theory Christopher M. Watts Understanding materiality and human experience through creative artistic expression Cordula Hansen Objects and agency: some obstacles and the opportunities of modernity Ian Russell Double-artefacts: exploring the other side of material culture Matt Edgeworth Habitus unbound: overlaps and clashes between the histories of art, religion and science and opening space for archaeologies of plural public grounds of truth Stephanie Koerner Are Stones Alive? Chantal Conneller Mutable materials and the production of persons: reconfiguring understandings of identity in the Mesolithic of the northern Irish Sea basin Hannah Cobb We have never been material Andrew Cochrane Foreign objects in an egocentric landscape: understanding objects and interaction during the Neolithic of northern England The conceptual animal: technologies of body presentation in the Lower Bavarian Neolithic Daniela Hofmann The poetics of scale: miniature axes from Whitchurch Kate Waddington The good, the bad and the ambiguous: boundary issues of the Western mindset in the interpretation of Minoan iconography Eric McGowan Destabilizing meaning in anthropomorphic forms from Northwest Argentina Benjamin Alberti Beyond Materiality: sintaxis and relationality of rock art and some of the things we call nature Andres Troncoso M. From Material Culture to Material Life Dan Hicks I'm your Venus: making surfaces on the body Penny Bickle The evanescence of the 'material' and of the 'cultural': the impossibility of fixing a face. Some notes on experience, representation, identity - steps into an interdisciplinary field of enquiry? Vitor Oliveira Jorge Comment Tim Ingold -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- For CHAT meetings see: http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/events/chat.html --------------------------