| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Oxford handbooks |
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Oxford handbooks in archaeology |
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Oxford handbooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Angela Piccini -- Part I: Cross-disciplinary perspectives. The relationship between ethnoarchaeology and archaeologies of the contemporary past : a historical investigation / Kathryn Fewster ; Forensic archaeology / Natasha Powers and Lucy Sibun ; Anthropological approaches to contemporary material worlds / Penny Harvey ; The place of things in contemporary history / Tim Cole ; Canonical affordances : the psychology of everyday things / Alan Costall and Ann Richards ; To the things themselves again : observations on what things are and why they matter / James Gordon Finlayson ; STS, symmetry, archaeology / Timothy Webmoor ; Actor-network-theory approaches to the archaeology of contemporary architecture / Albena Yaneva ; Global media and archaeologies of network technologies / Sean Cubitt ; Performance and the stratigraphy of place : everything you need to build a town is here / Wrights & Sites (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith, and Cathy Turner) |
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Part II: Recurrent themes. Time / Laurent Olivier ; Absence / Severin Fowles and Kaet Heupel ; Ruins / Gavin Lucas ; Memory / Bjørnar Olsen ; Authenticity / Paul Graves-Brown ; Sectarianism / Laura McAtackney ; Afterlives / Michael Brian Schiffer ; Waste / Joshua Reno ; Heritage / Rodney Harrison ; Difference / Denis Byrne ; Modernism / Alfredo González-Ruibal ; Protest / Anna Badcock and Robert Johnston ; Homelessness / Larry J. Zimmerman ; Conflict / Gabriel Moshenska ; Disaster / Richard A. Gould ; Scale / Matt Edgeworth |
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Part III: Mobilities, space, place. Aluminology : an archaeology of mobile modernity / Mimi Sheller ; The archaeology of space exploration / Alice C. Gorman and Beth Laura O'Leary ; Contemporary archaeology in the postcolony : disciplinary entrapments, subaltern epistemologies / Nick Shepherd ; Archaeologies of automobility / Peter Merriman ; Archaeology of modern American death : grave goods and blithe mementoes / Shannon Lee Dawdy ; ̀A dirtier reality?' Archaeological methods and the urban project / John Schofield ; Heritage and modernism in New York / Laurie A. Wilkie ; Checkpoints as gendered spaces : an autoarchaeology of war, heritage, and the city / Uzma Z. Rizvi ; Race and prosaic materiality : the archaeology of contemporary urban space and the invisible colour line / Paul R. Mullins ; Photo essay : Institutional spaces / Peter Metelerkamp |
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Part IV: Media and mutabilities. Between the lines : drawing archaeology / Helen Wickstead ; Two riots : the importance of civil unrest in contemporary archaeology / James R. Dixon ; The materiality of film / Liz Watkins ; The Burning Man Festival and the archaeology of ephemeral and temporary gatherings / Carolyn L. White ; Olympic City screens : media, matter, and making place / Angela Piccini ; Material animals : an archaeology of contemporary zoo experiences / Cornelius Holtorf ; Photo essay : On salvage photography / Caitlin Desilvey with photographs by Steven Bond and Caitlin Desilvey |
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Part V: Things and connectivities. Silicon Valley / Christine Finn ; Building thought into things / David de Léon ; Archaeologies of the postindustrial body / Sefryn Penrose ; The material cellphone / Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller ; The contemporary material culture of the cult of the infant : constructing children as desiring subjects / Sarah May ; VHS : a posthumanist aesthetics of recording and distribution / Jem Noble ; Autoanthropology, modernity, and automobiles / Pierre Lemonnier ; Photo essay : The other acropolises : multi-temporality and the persistence of the past / Yannis Hamilakis and Fotis Ifantidis |
| Summary |
This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding sub-field in archaeology, the study of the present and recent past. It seeks to explore the boundaries of this emerging area, 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Archaeology -- Methodology.
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Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Archaeology -- Methodology
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Civilization, Modern
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Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Graves-Brown, P. (Paul), 1960- editor.
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Harrison, Rodney, 1974- editor.
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Piccini, Angela, editor.
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| LC no. |
2013938775 |
| ISBN |
9780191663949 |
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0191663948 |
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9780191755859 |
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0191755850 |
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