Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder (Bristol, 23 novembre 1948) è un archeologo britannico, pioniere della teoria postprocessualista in archeologia che per primo ha messo radici tra i suoi studenti e nel suo lavoro tra il 1980-1990.

Biografia

In quel periodo aveva tra i suoi studenti Henrietta Moore, Ajay Pratap, Nandini Rao, Mike Parker Pearson, Paul Lane, John Muke, Sheena Crawford, Nick Merriman, Michael Shanks e Christopher Tilley. A partire dal 2002, è Dunlevie Family Professor di Antropologia presso la Università di Stanford negli Stati Uniti.

Çatalhöyük

Pubblicazioni selezionate

• Spatial analysis in archaeology (1976, with C. Orton)
• Symbols in action. Ethnoarchaeological studies of material culture (1982)
• The Present Past. An introduction to anthropology for archaeologists (1982)
• Reading the Past. Current approaches to interpretation in archaeology (1986) (revised 1991 and, with Scott Hutson, 2003)
• The Domestication of Europe: structure and contingency in Neolithic societies (1990)
• Theory and Practice in Archaeology (1992) (Collected papers)
• On the Surface: Çatalhöyük 1993-95 (1996) As editor, Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. ISBN 0-9519420-3-4.
• The Archaeological Process. An introduction (1999)
• Archaeology beyond dialogue (2004) (Collected papers)
• The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük (2006)
• Religion in the Emergence of Civilization. Çatalhöyük as a case study (2010)
• Entangled: An Archaeology of the Relationships between Humans and Things (2012)

Onorificenze

Compagno dell'Ordine di San Michele e San Giorgio

«Per i servizi all'archeologia e alle relazioni tra Regno Unito e Turchia.»
— 8 giugno 2019

Bibliografia

• Balter, Michael. The Goddess and the Bull: Çatalhöyük: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization. New York: Free Press, 2004 (hardcover, ISBN 0-7432-4360-9); Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2006 (paperback, ISBN 1-59874-069-5).
• Kerig, Tim. Ian Hodder und die britische Archäologie. In M. K. H. Eggert & U. Veit (eds.). Theorien in der Archäologie: Zur englischsprachigen Diskussion. Tübinger Archaeologische Taschenbücher 1, pp. 217-242. Münster: Waxmann 1998 (paperback ISBN 3-89325-594-X).

Collegamenti esterni

• Home page for Ian Hodder
• Home page at Stanford University, Department of Anthropology
• Home page at Stanford Archaeology Center
• Interview Archiviato il 29 marzo 2013 in Internet Archive. with the Society for California Archaeology in 1999
• Interview with Ian Hodder March 2017 "Ian Hodder: Çatalhöyük, Religion & Templeton’s 25%"