Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations: Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction, edited by Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.  
 

The social encounter is a particular sort of concept, focusing on confusion, 
ion, trauma, and possibly social change that may emerge in contact with 
people and things. A social encounter is, however, not only about negotiation or 
contemplating existence, but is rather about what happens when people interact 
actively, when they involve themselves with people and materialities, when they 
move around, fetch things, use things, leave things etc. The primary focus of the volume is the effects and processes involved in intra- and inter-societal encounters. All but one text in this volume were presented as working papers at sessions at the Xth and XIth European Association for Archaeologists Meetings in Lyon and Cork respectively


TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  
Chapter One 
Encounters – Materialities – Confrontations: An Introduction 
Per Cornell & Fredrik Fahlander
 
Chapter Two 
Third Space Encounters: Hybridity, Mimicry and Interstitial Practice 
Fredrik Fahlander

Chapter Three 
Materiality, ‘Ambiguity’  and the Unfamiliar in the Archaeology   
of Inter-Societal Confrontations: A Case Study from Northwest Australia 
Rodney Harrison 
 
Chapter Four 
Dawn of a New Age:  The Late Neolithic as Third Space 
Jeanette Varberg 
 
Chapter Five 
A Microarchaeological Approach  to the Social Significance  
of Late Bronze Age Burial Practices:  Age and Gender  
at the Lusatian Urnfield of Cottbus Alvensleben-Kaserne (Germany) 
Alexander Gramsch. 
 
Chaper Six 
Unhomely Space:  Confronting Badiou and Bhabha 
Per Cornell 
 
Chapter Seven 
Emptiness and Form:  A Microarchaeology of Buddhism 
Linus Hammarstrand 
 
Chapter Eight 
Keeping up Appearances: On the Northern Frontier  
in Scandinavian Funnel Beaker Times 
Gunlög Graner & Leif Karlenby

Chapter Nine 
Lethal Encounters. Warfare and Virtual Ideologies in the Maya Area 
Johan Normark 
 
Chapter Ten 
The Spread of Middle Eastern Glass 
Anna Ihr 
 
Chapter Eleven 
The Precious Pottery Disc:  Harappan Toy Artefacts as Traces   
of Momentary Encounters 
Elke Rogersdotter 
 
Chapter Twelve 
Gotlandic Picture Stones, Hybritity and Material Culture 
Alexander Andreeff 
 
List of Contributors