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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 Urb
This volume investigates the limitations of modern archaeological practices by challenging the traditional tropes that define the discipline's relationship with time, modernity, and the present. Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal, the collection brings together a diverse group of scholars to critique how archaeology has historically legitimized patriarchal and colonial frameworks. The contributors argue for a shift toward a more reflexive, multi-temporal, and decolonized methodology that acknowledges the political implications of excavating and interpreting the past.
What You Will Find
Experts recognize this collection as a significant contribution to the 'symmetrical archaeology' movement and post-processual theory. Scholars frequently cite the text for its rigorous attempt to bridge the gap between material culture studies and contemporary political critique.
Page Count:
392
Publication Date:
2013-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0203068637
ISBN-13:
9780203068632
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