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Reclaiming archaeology : beyond the tropes of modernity
Title:
Reclaiming archaeology : beyond the tropes of modernity

Archaeological orientations

Archaeological orientations.
Author:
González Ruibal, Alfredo.
ISBN:
9781138238572

9780415673921

9780203068632
Publication Information:
Milton Park, Abingdon ; N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.
Physical Description:
xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Series:
Archaeological orientations

Archaeological orientations.
Contents:
The clearing : archaeology's way of opening the world / Matt Edgeworth -- Scratching the surface : reassembling an archaeology in and of the present / Rodney Harrison -- From excavation to archaeological X-files / Dawid Kobialka -- Digging[strikethrough] alternative archaeologies / Cristóbal Gnecco -- Evestigation, nomethodology and deictics : movements in un-disciplining archaeology / Alejandro Haber -- Archaeology and photography : a pragmatology / Michael Shanks and Connie Svabo -- New cultural landscapes : archaeological method as as artistic practice / Bárbara Fluxá -- The business of archaeology is the present / Laurent Olivier -- Which archaeology? : a question of chronopolitics / Christopher Witmore -- The politics of periodization / Charles E. Orser Jr. -- Change, individuality and reason, or how archaeology has legitimized a patriarchal modernity / Almudena Hernando -- Indigeneity and time : towards a decolonization of archaeological temporal categories and tools / Gustavo Verdesio -- Enacted multi-temporality : the archaeological site as a shared, performative space / Yannis Hamilakis and Efthimis Theou -- The new heritage and re-shapings of the past / Cornelius Holtorf and Graham Fairclough -- The archaeological gaze / Gabriel Moshenska -- In the shade of Frederick Douglass : the archaeology of Wye House / Mark P. Leone, Amanda Tang, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Elizabeth Pruitt -- Ruin memory : a hauntology of Cape Town / Nick Shepherd -- A thoroughly modern park : Mapungubwe, UNESCO and Indigenous Heritage / Lynn Meskell -- Days in Hong Kong, May 2011 / Denis Byrne -- The charter'd Thames / Sefryn Penrose -- The return of what? / Bjørnar Olsen -- Inside is out : an epistemology of surfaces and substances / Paul Graves-Brown -- Fragments as something more : archaeological experience and reflection / Mats Burström -- Bringing a place in ruins back to life / Gastón Gordillo -- Cutting the earth/cutting the body / Douglass Bailey -- Archaeological remains of oil-based urbanity / Camilo José Vergara -- Milieux de mémoire / Martin Hall.
Abstract:
"Reclaiming Archaeology includes essays from a diverse array of archaeologists who have dealt in one way or another with modernity, including scholars from non-Anglophone countries who have approached the issue in original ways during recent years, as well as contributors from other fields who engage in a creative dialogue with archaeology and the work of archaeologists...."--Publisher description.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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