TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shanks,Michael
TI  - The Archaeological Imagination
SN  - 9781611327847
AV  - CC72.S49 2012 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Walnut Creek
PB  - Left Coast Press
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Methodology
KW  - History
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Protection
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Collection and preservation
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - History & Archaeology
KW  - hilcc
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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