Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder

Director’s Guest in Humanities
6 marzo–10 aprile 2017
Professione
Dunlevie Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
Biografia

Ian Hodder joined the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in 1999. Among his books are: Symbols in Action: Ethnoarchaeological Studies of Material Culture (1982); Reading the Past: Current Approaches to Interpretation in Archaeology (1986, with Scott Hutson); The Domestication of Europe (1990); The Archaeological Process: An Introduction (1999); The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (2006); and Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012).

Hodder has been conducting the excavation of the nine-thousand-year-old Neolithic site of Catalhoyuk in central Turkey since 1993. The twenty-five-year project has three aims: to place the art from the site in its full environmental, economic, and social context; to conserve the paintings, plasters, and mud walls; and to present the site to the public. The project is also associated with attempts to develop reflexive methods in archaeology.