The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 October 2013
- ISBN 9780199602001
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages852 pages
- Size 255x180x48 mm
- Weight 2010 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 140 in-text illustrations and 3 photograph based essays 0
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Short description:
This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding sub-field in archaeology, the study of the present and recent past. It seeks to explore the boundaries of this emerging area, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods, which are applicable to this new sub-field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research.
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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.
contains a richly eclectic collection of papers ... their collective impact lies in their remarkable and unpredictable diversity.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
The relationship between ethnoarchaeology and archaeologies of the contemporary past: a historical investigation
Forensic archaeology
Anthropological approaches to contemporary material worlds
The place of things in contemporary history
Canonical affordances: the psychology of everyday things
To the things themselves again: observations on what things are and why they matter
STS, symmetry, archaeology
Actor-Network-Theory approaches to the archaeology of contemporary architecture
Global media and archaeologies of network technologies
Performance and the stratigraphy of place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here
Part 2: Recurrent Themes
Time
Absence
Ruins
Memory
Authenticity
Sectarianism
Afterlives
Waste
Heritage
Difference
Modernism
Protest
Homelessness
Conflict
Disaster
Scale
Part 3: Mobilities, Space, Place
Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity
The Archaeology of Space Exploration
Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies
Archaeologies of Automobility
Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave Goods and Blithe Mementos
A Dirtier Reality? Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project
Heritage and Modernism in New York
Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An autoarchaeology of War, Heritage and the City
Race and Prosaic Materiality: The Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line
Photoessay: Institutional Spaces
Part 4: Media and Mutabilities
Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology
Two riots: The importance of civil unrest in contemporary archaeology
The Materiality of Film
The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter and Making Place
Material Animals: An Archaeology of Contemporary Zoo Experiences
Photoessay: On Salvage Photography
Part 5: Things and Connectivities
Silicon Valley
Building Thought into Things
Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body
The Material Cellphone
The contemporary material culture of the cult of the infant: constructing children as desiring subjects
VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and Distribution
Auto-anthropology, modernity and automobiles
Photoessay: The Other Acropolises: Multi-temporality and the Persistence of the Past
Index
