The archaeological imagination / Michael Shanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shanks, Michael, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Imagination.

Archaeology--Social aspects.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology--History.

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property.

Antiquities--Collection and preservation.

Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2012.

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking-about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination. In this extended essay, renowned archaeological theorist Michael Shanks offers his colleagues and students a window on this imaginative world of past and pre

Contents:

We are all Archaeologists Now

Debateable Lands

A Northern Stage

Relics and Witnesses

Durat Opus Vatum

The Antiquary

Roman Boots

Itinerary and Natural History

The Living and the Dead

Media, Representation, and Mise-en-Scène

Topology and Time

Collectors and Conservators

An Archaeological Narratology

The Archaeological Imagination.

Notes:

First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-41915-7

1-315-41917-3

1-61132-784-9

9781315419176

OCLC:

793166642