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The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison, and Angela Piccini
838 pages
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140 in-text illustrations and 3 photograph based essays
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246x171mm
978-0-19-960200-1
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Hardback
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September 2013 (estimated)
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- Provides an authoritative overview of an emerging subfield
- Written by a diverse and leading group of international and interdisciplinary scholars working on innovative new themes and in non-traditional archaeological contexts
- Fully illustrated throughout, and includes three photo-essays which reflect on some of the key themes in the Handbook
It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have always been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently however, many have begun to consider how archaeological methodologies and techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself; how we might undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present. This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative
overview of this newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past.
In addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working in adjacent fields on the relationship of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media studies, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film studies, and performance studies/contemporary art practices. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new sub-field, and to suggest important future trajectories for
research. It makes a significant intervention in drawing together scholars working on a broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.Readership: For students and scholars interested in archaeology, modern material culture, anthropology, and sociology.
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Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Independent Scholar, Rodney Harrison, Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and Angela Piccini, Senior Lecturer in Screen Media, School of Arts, University of Bristol Paul Graves-Brown is an independent scholar living in Wales. In addition to the edited volume Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture (2000), he has published widely on topics as diverse as the Sex Pistols and the Kalashnikov AK47.
Rodney Harrison is a Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is currently Chair of the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) Group. He is the author (with John Schofield) of After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past (OUP, 2010).
Angela Piccini is a Senior Lecturer in Screen Media at the School of Arts, University of Bristol. She co-founded the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) Group with Dan Hicks, and sits on the Committee for Audio-Visual Scholarship and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR). She publishes on place, materiality, and screen media. Contributors:
Anna Badcock (ArcHeritage)
Steven Bond (Photographer)
Denis Byrne (Office of Environment and Heritage, Department of Premier and Cabinet New South Wales)
Tim Cole (University of Bristol)
Alan Costall (University of Portsmouth)
Sean Cubitt (University of
London)
Shannon Lee Dawdy (University of Chicago)
David de Léon (Sony Mobile Communications, Sweden)
Caitlin DeSilvey (University of Exeter)
James R. Dixon (PLaCE Bristol)
Matt Edgeworth (University of Leicester)
Kathryn Fewster (Independent Researcher)
James Gordon Finlayson (University of Sussex)
Christine Finn (University of Bradford)
Severin Fowles (Barnard College, New York)
Alfredo González-Ruibal (Institute of Heritage Sciences, CSIC)
A.C. Gorman (The Australian National University)
Richard A. Gould (Brown University)
Paul Graves-Brown (Independent Researcher)
Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton)
Rodney Harrison
(University College London)
Penny Harvey (University of Manchester)
Kaet Heupel (Columbia University, New York)
Cornelius Holtorf (Linnaeus University, Kalmar)
Fotis Ifantidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Robert Johnston (University of Sheffield)
Pierre Lemonnier (Aix Marseille Université)
Gavin Lucas (University of Iceland)
Richard Maxwell (Queens College, City University of New York)
Sarah May (Independent Researcher)
Laura McAtackney (University of Edinburgh)
Peter Merriman (University of Aberystwyth)
Peter Metelerkamp (University of Bristol)
Toby Miller (University of California)
Gabriel Moshenska (University College
London)
Paul R. Mullins (University Indianapolis)
Jem Noble(Freelance Arts & Media Producer)
Beth Laura O'Leary (New Mexico State University)
Laurent Olivier (Musée d'Archéologie nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
Bjørnar Olsen (University of Tromsø)
Sefryn Penrose (University of Oxford)
Angela Piccini (University of Bristol)
Natasha Powers (Museum of London Archaeology)
Joshua Reno (Binghamton University)
Ann Richards (Independent Researcher)
Uzma Z. Rizvi (Pratt Institute, New York)
Michael Brian Schiffer (University of Arizona)
John Schofield (University of York)
Mimi Sheller (Drexel University)
Nick Shepherd (University of
Cape Town)
Lucy Sibun (University College London)
Liz Watkins (University of Leeds)
Timothy Webmoor (University of Oxford)
Carolyn L. White (University of Nevada)
Helen Wickstead (Kingston University, London)
Laurie A. Wilkie (University of California)
Stephen Hodge (Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith, and Cathy Turner Wrights & Sites)
Albena Yaneva (University of Manchester)
Larry J. Zimmerman (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
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Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini:
Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
2: Kathryn Fewster: The relationship between ethnoarchaeology and archaeologies of the contemporary past: a historical investigation
3: Natasha Powers and Lucy Sibun: Forensic archaeology
4: Penny Harvey: Anthropological approaches to contemporary material worlds
5: Tim Cole: The place of things in contemporary history
6: Alan Costall and Ann Richards: The things that things are for: psychology and contemporary material culture
7: James Gordon Finlayson: To the things themselves again: philosophical observations on what things are and why they matter
8: Timothy Webmoor: Symmetry, STS and the archaeology of the contemporary world
9: Albena Yaneva: Actor-Network Theory and the archaeology of buildings as architectural machines
10: Sean Cubitt: Global media and archaeologies of network technologies
11: Wrights & Sites (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith and Cathy Turner): Performance and the stratigraphy of place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here
Part 2: Recurrent Themes
12: Laurent Olivier: Time
13: Severin Fowles and Kaet Heupel: Absence
14: Gavin Lucas: Ruins
15: Bjørnar Olsen: Memory
16: Paul Graves-Brown: Authenticity
17: Laura McAtackney: Sectarianism
18: Michael Brian Schiffer: Afterlives
19: Joshua Reno: Waste
20: Rodney Harrison: Heritage
21: Denis Byrne: Difference
22: Alfredo González-Ruibal: Modernism
23: Anna Badcock and Robert Johnston: Protest
24: Larry J. Zimmerman: Homelessness
25: Gabriel Moshenska: Conflict
26: Richard A. Gould: Disaster
27: Matt Edgeworth: Scale
Part 3: Mobilities, Space, Place
28: Mimi Sheller: Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity
29: A.C. Gorman and Beth Laura O Leary: The Archaeology of Space Exploration
30: Nick Shepherd: Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies
31: Peter Merriman: Archaeologies of Automobility
32: Shannon Lee Dawdy: Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave Goods and Blithe Mementos
33: John Schofield: A Dirtier Realitya Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project
34: Laurie A. Wilkie: Heritage and Modernism in New York
35: Uzma Z. Rizvi: Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An autoarchaeology of War, Heritage and the City
36: Paul R. Mullins: Race and Prosaic Materiality: The Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Color Line
Peter Metelerkamp: Photoessay: Institutional Spaces
Part 4: Media and Mutabilities
37: Helen Wickstead: Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology
38: James R. Dixon: Two riots: The importance of civil unrest in contemporary archaeology
39: Liz Watkins: The Materiality of Film
40: Carolyn L. White: The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
41: Angela Piccini: Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter and Making Place
42: Cornelius Holtorf: Material Animals: An Archaeology of Contemporary Zoo Experiences
Caitlin DeSilvey, with photographs by Steven Bond and Caitlin DeSilvey: Photoessay: On Salvage Photography
Part 5: Things and Connectivities
43: Christine Finn: Silicon Valley
44: David de Léon: Building Thought into Things
45: Sefryn Penrose: Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body
46: Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller: The Material Cellphone
47: Sarah May: The contemporary material culture of the cult of the infant: constructing children as desiring subjects
48: Jem Noble: VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and Distribution
49: Pierre Lemonnier: Auto-anthropology, modernity and automobiles
Yannis Hamilakis and Fotis Ifantidis: Photoessay: The Other Acropolises: Multi-temporality and the Persistence of the Past
Index
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