Daróczi and his culture change theory for archaeology (2011)

Tibor-Tamás Daróczi. Anamorphosis in archaeology. Aspects of phenomenology and perception in interpretations of anthropogenic material culture. Transylvanian Review, 20, 2(1), 2011, 17-30.

Tibor-Tamás Daróczi offers a new systematic view on culture change with four main components in interrelation and of equal importance – the environment, humans, anthropogenic material culture, and the present day perspectives. The methodological background is phenomenology, Peircean trichotomy and pragmatism. The seeds of his interest in theory had come from his inductive research of prehistoric burial customs in the eastern Carpathians Basin that required explanations he could not provide because of missing adequate theory. To fill the theoretical gap in his research he turned toward philosophy that resulted in a new cross-disciplinary synthesis of culture change...

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