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On the Impossibility of Close Reading: The Case of Alexander Marshack

1996; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 37; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/204490

1537-5382

James Elkins,

Museums and Cultural Heritage

Previous articleNext article No AccessCultural Representation and the Methodology of Close Reading in ArchaeologyOn the Impossibility of Close Reading: The Case of Alexander MarshackJames ElkinsJames Elkins Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 37, Number 2Apr., 1996 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/204490 Views: 24Total views on this site Citations: 20Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1996 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sini Kaipainen A critically methodological approach: reading closely the Instagram profile of a photojournalist, photographies 15, no.33 (Sep 2022): 441–460.https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2022.2096678Brian Hayden Keeping count: On interpreting record keeping in prehistory, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 63 (Sep 2021): 101304.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101304Oliver Schlaudt Type and Token in the Prehistoric Origins of Numbers, Cambridge Archaeological Journal 30, no.44 (May 2020): 629–646.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774320000165Flavio Altamura A new notational artifact from the Upper Paleolithic? Technological and traceological analysis of a pebble decorated with notches found on Monte Alto (Velletri, Italy), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 26 (Aug 2019): 101925.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101925Stephen Chrisomalis Constraint, cognition, and written numeration, Pragmatics & Cognition 21, no.33 (Jul 2015): 552–572.https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21.3.08chrGöran Sonesson Semiosis and the elusive final interpretant of understanding, Semiotica 2010, no.179179 (Jan 2010).https://doi.org/10.1515/semi.2010.023 The Unread Legacy, (Jan 2004): 3–22.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-001 Universes of the Legible and Theories of Writing, (Jan 2004): 23–40.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-002 A Flowery Script, (Jan 2004): 41–54.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-003 Living by the “Book of the Thousand”, (Jan 2004): 55–76.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-004 The Tupicochan Staff Code, (Jan 2004): 77–108.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-005 The Khipu Art after the Inkas, (Jan 2004): 109–136.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-006 The Patrimonial Quipocamayos of Tupicocha, (Jan 2004): 137–184.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-007 Ayllu Cords and Ayllu Books, (Jan 2004): 185–208.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-008 The Half-Life and Afterlife of an Andean Medium, (Jan 2004): 209–236.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-009 Toward Synthetic Interpretation, (Jan 2004): 237–266.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-010 Conclusions, (Jan 2004): 267–282.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-011 Notes, (Jan 2004): 283–294.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-012 References, (Jan 2004): 299–316.https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822386179-013 Frank Salomon How an Andean “Writing Without Words” Works Salomon, Current Anthropology 42, no.11 (Jul 2015): 1–27.https://doi.org/10.1086/318435