Contemporary Archaeology

Author : Robert W. Preucel,Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444358513

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Contemporary Archaeology in Theory by Robert W. Preucel,Stephen A. Mrozowski Pdf

The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between time, space, processes, and people. Defines the relevance of archaeology and the social sciences more generally to the modern world Challenges the traditional boundaries between prehistoric and historical archaeologies Discusses how archaeology articulates such contemporary topics and issues as landscape and natures; agency, meaning and practice; sexuality, embodiment and personhood; race, class, and ethnicity; materiality, memory, and historical silence; colonialism, nationalism, and empire; heritage, patrimony, and social justice; media, museums, and publics Examines the influence of American pragmatism on archaeology Offers 32 new chapters by leading archaeologists and cultural anthropologists

Author : Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429806995

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An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era by Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal Pdf

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific material processes. It reflects on the theory and practice of the archaeology of the contemporary past from epistemological, political, ethical and aesthetic viewpoints, and characterises the present based on archaeological traces from the spatial, temporal and material excesses that define it. The materiality of our era, the book argues, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound, original and disturbing about humanity. This is the first attempt at describing the contemporary era from an archaeological point of view. Global in scope, the book brings together case studies from every continent and considers sources from peripheral and rarely considered traditions, meanwhile engaging in an interdisciplinary dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, history and geography. An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era will be essential reading for students and practitioners of the archaeology of the contemporary past, historical archaeology and archaeological theory. It will also be of interest to anybody concerned with globalisation, modernity and the Anthropocene.

Author : Laura McAtackney,Krysta Ryzewski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780192525512

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Contemporary Archaeology and the City by Laura McAtackney,Krysta Ryzewski Pdf

Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belém, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.

Author : Valerie Pinsky,Alison Wylie
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521321093

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Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology by Valerie Pinsky,Alison Wylie Pdf

Author : Jonathan Gardner
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787358447

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A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events by Jonathan Gardner Pdf

A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciously seek to leave a ‘legacy’ that will endure for decades or more. With London as his case study, Jonathan Gardner argues that these spectacles must be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply a transient or short-term phenomena. Using a novel methodology drawn from the subfield of contemporary archaeology – the archaeology of the recent past and present-day – a broad range of comparative studies are used to explore the long-term history of each event. These include the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace and their extraordinary ‘afterlife’ at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new post-war British identity; and how London 2012, as the latest of London’s mega events, dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste and ‘heritage’ in creating a vision of the future.

Author : Erin P. Riggs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003861829

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A Contemporary Archaeology of Post-Displacement Resettlement by Erin P. Riggs Pdf

This book explores the archaeology of the 1947 Partition, the largest mass migration in human history, and the resulting resettlement of half a million refugees in Delhi, India’s capital city. Interweaving material analysis with oral history collection and archival sources, this book considers how Delhi’s Partition refugees have interacted with the city's built landscapes through time. It demonstrates how government-built refugee colonies, influenced by both socialist and capitalist design philosophies, provided an effective and adaptable setting for resettlement. In contrast, it illustrates how Delhi’s pre-Partition landscapes—including ‘evacuee properties’ vacated by out-migrating Muslims and sections of the planned, colonial capital—have proven more problematic venues for rehousing. In these contexts, refugee families navigated life within homes shaped by past occupants and colonial-era wealth disparities. The book highlights that despite such difficulties and the unprecedented scale of Partition’s impact on Delhi, refugees have obtained an impressive degree of material success and social acceptance in the city. This example challenges assumptions about the aid-dependency of refugee communities, the potential effectiveness of public housing, and the mutability of national belonging. This interdisciplinary case study will be of interest to scholars in varied fields of study, including archaeology, architectural history, cultural anthropology, human geography, and South Asian studies.

Author : Laura McAtackney,Krysta Ryzewski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198803607

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Contemporary Archaeology and the City by Laura McAtackney,Krysta Ryzewski Pdf

Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belem, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.

Author : Yannis Hamilakis
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Forced migration
ISBN : 1781797110

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The New Nomadic Age by Yannis Hamilakis Pdf

For most people on earth crossing national borders is risky, perilous, often lethal This is the first anthology to explore the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present.

Author : Paul Graves-Brown,Rodney Harrison,Angela Piccini
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191663956

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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World by Paul Graves-Brown,Rodney Harrison,Angela Piccini Pdf

It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself: how we might undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present. This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past. In addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working on the relationships of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film, performance, and contemporary art. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. It makes a significant intervention by drawing together scholars working on a broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.

Author : ALFREDO. GONZALEZ-RUIBAL
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1032596600

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An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era by ALFREDO. GONZALEZ-RUIBAL Pdf

The second edition of An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era explores the period between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries and reflects on the archaeological theory and practice of the recent past. This book argues that the materiality of our times, and particularly its ruins and rubbish, reveals something profound and disturbing about modern societies. It examines the political, ethical, aesthetic and epistemological foundations of contemporary archaeology and characterizes the excess of the contemporary period through its material traces. This book remains the first attempt at describing the contemporary era from an archaeological point of view. Global in scope, the book brings together case studies from every continent and considers sources from peripheral and rarely considered traditions, meanwhile engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue with philosophy, anthropology, history and geography. This new edition includes the latest developments in the field, both methodological and theoretical, and adds new and exciting case studies to engage students. It also covers some of the most pressing issues of the present, as they are being addressed by archaeologists, such as pandemics, the antiracist movement, the global rise of reactionary populism, the ecological crisis, and climate change. An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era is essential reading for students and practitioners of the contemporary past, historical archaeology and archaeological theory. It will also be of interest to anybody concerned with globalisation, modernity and the Anthropocene.

Author : Chi, Jennifer Y., and Pedro Azara, eds.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691166469

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From Ancient to Modern by Chi, Jennifer Y., and Pedro Azara, eds. Pdf

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, New York, February 12-June 7, 2015.

Author : Victor Buchli,Gavin Lucas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134571383

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Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past by Victor Buchli,Gavin Lucas Pdf

Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council house.

Author : Mark P. Leone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : America
ISBN : PSU:000008535528

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Contemporary Archaeology by Mark P. Leone Pdf

Intended as a guide or reader in graduate or advanced under­graduate courses and as a reference for professionals interested in the latest archaeological achievements, this significant compilation of articles dealing with the theoretical bases and substantive accomplishments of contem­porary archaeology provides the coherent theory and concrete results of recent developments in anthropological archaeology. The thirty-three con­tributions here brought together, most of them previously published but several of which were written especially for this volume, are divided into seven main sections and are linked together by Mr. Leone’s extensive commentary and discussion. A comprehensive bibliography provides uni­fying concepts of the work presented here and serves as a further guide to contemporary developments.

Author : Rodney Harrison,John Schofield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191613883

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After Modernity by Rodney Harrison,John Schofield Pdf

This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the archaeology of developed, de-industrialized societies during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. This period encompasses the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the 'internet age', a period which sits firmly within what we would recognize to be a period of 'lived and living memory'. Rodney Harrison and John Schofield explore how archaeology can inform the study of this time period and the study of our own society through detailed case studies and an in-depth summary of the existing literature. Their book draws together cross-disciplinary perspectives on contemporary material culture studies, and develops a new agenda for the study of the materiality of late modern societies.

Author : Camille Westmont
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800736160

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Critical Public Archaeology by Camille Westmont Pdf

Critical approaches to public archaeology have been in use since the 1980s, however only recently have archaeologists begun using critical theory in conjunction with public archaeology to challenge dominant narratives of the past. This volume brings together current work on the theory and practice of critical public archaeology from Europe and the United States to illustrate the ways that implementing critical approaches can introduce new understandings of the past and reveal new insights on the present. Contributors to this volume explore public perceptions of museum interpretations as well as public archaeology projects related to changing perceptions of immigration, the working classes, and race.