Archaeology : the discipline of things
Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. This title considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past.
Print Book, English, ©2012
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©2012
ix, 255 p. : il., maps ; 24 cm
9780520274174, 9780520274167, 0520274172, 0520274164
858870355
Introduction : caring about things
The ambiguity of things : contempt and desire
Engagements with things : the making of archaeology
Digging deep : archaeology and fieldwork
Things in translation : documents and imagery
Futures for things : memory practices and digital translation
Timely things : from Argos to Mycenae and beyond
Making and the design of things : human being and the shape of history
Getting on with things : a material metaphysics of care