%0 Journal Article
%T Material culture: the concrete dimension of social relations
%A Tania Andrade Lima
%J Boletim do Museu Paraense Em¨ªlio Goeldi. Ci¨ºncias Humanas
%D 2011
%I Museu Paraense Em¨ªlio Goeldi
%X By investigating the emergence, maintenance and transformation of sociocultural systems, Archaeology basically works with three closely inter-related dimensions: space, time, and form. The latter has seen the greatest diversity in approaches over the course of Archaeology's construction as a discipline. This article presents the conceptions of material culture developed by various schools of archaeological thought. Wrongly understood until the 1980s as an unproblematic dimension, a passive reflection of human behavior, some authors since then have explored its active and transformative role in social negotiations, making it the concrete dimension of relations inside the society.
%K Material culture
%K Archaeology
%K Archaeological theory
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222011000100002&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt