Archaeology
The Discipline of Things
This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how every step in the discipline's scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical artifacts, ranging from the camel-hair brush to profile drawings to virtual reality imaging. At the same time, the reader is taken on a phenomenological journey into various pasts, immersed in the lives of peoples from other times, compelled to engage their senses with the sights, smells, and noises of the publics and places whose remains they study. This is a refreshingly original and provocative look at the meaning of the material culture that lies at the foun…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Shanks, Michael / Webmoor, Timothy / Witmore, Christopher
- ISBN: 978-0-520-27416-7
- EAN: 9780520274167
- Produktnummer: 13067952
- Verlag: University Presses
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 266 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm 499 g
- Abbildungen: Cloth Over Boards; 25 b-w photographs, 2 line illustrations
- Gewicht: 499
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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