Christopher Tilley: Metaphor

Christopher Tilley is British postprocessual archaeologist.. Explore interesting quotes on metaphor.
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“Metaphors are thus the very medium and outcome of our analysis.”

Christopher Tilley

[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]

“To be human is to think through metaphors.”

Christopher Tilley

[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]

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“When we link things metaphorically we recognise similarity in difference, we think one thing in terms of attributes of another.”

Christopher Tilley

[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]

Thinking