Ian Hodder

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Ian Richard Hodder (born November 23, 1948 in Bristol ) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of post-processualism in archeology .

Life

Hodder is the son of the cultural geographers and Africa specialist EW Hodder. He studied in London and Cambridge and did his PhD with David L. Clarke . His other stations were Leeds , Amsterdam , Paris , New York and Stanford. In 1996 he became a professor at Cambridge. Hodder led excavations in Kenya, Sudan and Calabria between 1974 and 1980. Then he leads the investigation of Neolithic trench systems and megalithic systems in the Cambridge area. Since 1990 he has been leading the excavations in Çatalhöyük .

Since 2008, Hodder has been Professor of Social Anthropology at Stanford University in the United States.

His students include Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley , who call for critical archeology.

His contributions to the theoretical debate, which initially made him a representative of Clarke's “ New Archeology ”, had a decisive influence on the relevant discussions. Later he developed his own direction with post-processualism. Hodder has dealt extensively with the context of material culture, considering the data not only in a political-economic, but above all in a social-symbolic environment. Every artifact has a symbolic value that is not generally valid but is bound by the situation. For Hodder, objects are always related to other objects and can only be understood through them. Hodder calls this view "contextual archeology" .

In 2018, Hodder was awarded the Gold Medal by the Archaeological Institute of America .

Fonts (selection)

  • Some applications of Spatial Analysis in Archeology. (University of Cambridge, dissertation, 1976).
  • Analysis and interpretation. In: Andrew Sherratt (Ed.): The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Archeology. Christian, Munich 1980, ISBN 3-88472-035-X , pp. 34-38.
  • as editor: The Archeology of contextual meanings. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1987, ISBN 0-521-32924-8 .
  • as editor: Archaeological theory in Europe. The last three decades. Routledge, London et al. 1991, ISBN 0-415-06521-6 .
  • The archaeological process. In introduction. Blackwell, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-631-19884-9 .
  • as editor: Inhabiting Çatalhöyük. Reports from the 1995-99 seasons (= Çatalhöyük Research Project. 4 = British Institute of Archeology at Ankara. Monograph. 38). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2005, ISBN 1-902937-22-8 .
  • Çatalhöyük. The leopard's tale. Revealing the mysteries of Turkey's ancient "town". Thames & Hudson, New York NY et al. 2006, ISBN 0-500-05141-0 .
  • as editor: Excavating Çatalhöyük. South, North and KOPAL Area reports from the 1995-99 seasons (= Çatalhöyük Research Project. 3 = British Institute of Archeology at Ankara. Monograph. 37). McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-1-902937-27-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ian Hodder: Reading the past. Current approaches to interpretation in archeology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1991, ISBN 0-521-32743-1 .
  2. ^ Ian Hodder: Reading the past. Current approaches to interpretation in archeology. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1991, ISBN 0-521-32743-1 , pp. 121-155. Franziska Lang : Classical Archeology. An introduction to method, theory and practice (= UTB . 1991). Francke, Tübingen et al. 2002, ISBN 3-8252-1991-7 , p. 25.

literature

  • Tim Kerig: Ian Hodder and British Archeology. A Profl In: Manfred KH Eggert , Ulrich Veit (Hrsg.): Theory in archeology. For discussion in English (= Tübingen Archaeological Pocket Books. 1). Waxmann, Münster et al. 1998, ISBN 3-89325-594-X , pp. 217-242.
  • Dieter Reinisch (ed.): The original communism. On the trail of the egalitarian society. Promedia, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85371-350-1 (With texts by Ian Hodder: The Neolithic Collapse or: The first real farmers. P. 149 ff .; City without elites. P. 155 ff .; A decorated House in Çatalhöyük. P. 161 ff .; living together without central control? P. 163 f.).

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personal data
SURNAME Hodder, Ian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodder, Ian Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol