Experiencing the Past: On the Character of ArchaeologyIn Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE VISIT | 5 |
Part 1 ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD | 13 |
Part 2 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERESTS | 51 |
THE ENCOUNTER WITHTHE PAST | 97 |
WORKING ARCHAEOLOGY | 161 |
SYNOPSIS | 207 |
NOTES | 211 |
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abstract academic aesthetic archae ARCHAEOLOGICAL ETHIC archaeological experience archaeological method archaeological past argued artifact aspects associations authentic belonging castle collection concern construction contemporary context craft creative critical critical rationalism cultural identity dialogue différance discipline discourse Dunstanburgh DUNSTANBURGH CASTLE encounter ethical excavation facts fascination fragments garden heritage human Ian Hodder ideas ideology critique images implies individual interests interpretation involves labour look Mashpee material past meaning metaphor methodological hegemony monument museums narrative Native American natural Northumberland object past object world ologist ology particular past and present perhaps photograph piece of pot political post-processual archaeology Post-structuralism post-structuralist post)modernity potsherd practice processual archaeology production questions rational reality reason reference relation response rhizome Richard Long scientific archaeology sense significance social society sovereignty of science stone Stonehenge story strategies striptease structure style sublation technical theory things traditional tree-thinking truth understanding values Wallington Walter Benjamin