Archaeology
The Discipline of Things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the science of old things, archaeology does not discover the past as it was but must work with what remains. Such work involves the tangible mediation of past and present, of people and their cultural fabric,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Shanks, Michael / Webmoor, Timothy / Witmore, Christopher
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95400-7
- EAN: 9780520954007
- Produktnummer: 21596154
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'762 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Bjørnar Olsen, Professor at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Tromso. Michael Shanks is Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classics at Stanford.Timothy Webmoor is Research Fellow in Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society at the University of Oxford.Christopher Witmore is Associate Professor with the Department of Classical & Modern Languages & Literatures at Texas Tech University.
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