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The Archaeological Imagination.

By: Shanks, MichaelMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Walnut Creek : Left Coast Press, 2012. Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: ISBN: 9781611327847; 1611327849; 9781598743623; 1598743627; 9781598743616; 1598743619Subject(s): Archaeology -- Philosophy | Imagination | Archaeology -- Social aspects | Archaeology -- Methodology | Archaeology -- History | Cultural property -- Protection | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation | SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation | Archaeology | Archaeology -- Methodology | Archaeology -- Philosophy | Archaeology -- Social aspects | Cultural property -- Protection | Imagination | History & Archaeology | ArchaeologyLOC classification: CC72.S49 2012
Contents:
List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. We Are All Archaeologists Now; 2. Debatable Lands; A Northern Stage; Relics and Witnesses; Durat Opus Vatum; The Antiquary; Roman Boots; Itinerary and Natural History; The Living and the Dead; Media, Representation, and Mise-en-Sce⁺ђne; Topology and Time; Collectors and Conservators; 3. An Archaeological Narratology; 4. The Archaeological Imagination; References; Index; About the Author.
Summary: Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking-about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination. In this extended essay, renowned archaeological theorist Michael Shanks offers his colleagues and students a window on this imaginative world of past and present.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. We Are All Archaeologists Now; 2. Debatable Lands; A Northern Stage; Relics and Witnesses; Durat Opus Vatum; The Antiquary; Roman Boots; Itinerary and Natural History; The Living and the Dead; Media, Representation, and Mise-en-Sce⁺ђne; Topology and Time; Collectors and Conservators; 3. An Archaeological Narratology; 4. The Archaeological Imagination; References; Index; About the Author.

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking-about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination. In this extended essay, renowned archaeological theorist Michael Shanks offers his colleagues and students a window on this imaginative world of past and present.

English.

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