Travels with an archaeologist : finding a sense of place / Richard Hodges.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodges, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hodges, Richard--Travel.

Hodges, Richard.

Hodges, Richard--Philosophy.

Archaeologists--Travel.

Archaeologists.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Historic sites.

Place (Philosophy).

Senses and sensation.

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Psychological aspects.

Archaeology--Social aspects.

Psychological aspects.

Philosophy.

Travel.

Physical Description:

xii, 167 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Summary:

"A memoir of travels by an eminent archaeologist and historian"-- Provided by publisher.

"'You must be very patient, ' most everyone asserts admiringly on encountering an archaeologist. Patience in the pursuit of history instantly earns consideration. Patience to sift through the soil to discover treasure, from gold to unidentifiable knick-knacks--an educated beachcomber. But, patience does not come into it so much as the chemistry of experiences from being in the company of others as the five senses are provoked and satisfied by the buried unexpected. Archaeology is about hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching past textures in our time. With these senses, in the company of friends, new places are created from old ones. Travel with archaeologist and writer Richard Hodges as he explores sites across the globe and ponders the relationship of the individual with the past and the present of the past in its ruins, monuments and hidden traces of long-distant worlds and civilisations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: An archaeologist's sense of the past

[I] In the company of placemaking people

In Charles Newton's shadow, searching for Demeter at Knidos

Wim van Es and the discovery of the Dutch "Troy," Dorestad

Johnny Mitchell and San Vincenzo al Volturno's first saint

Riccardo and Quinto : place-making at "lost" Tuscan villages

Breakfast with Colin Renfrew

Reviewing Lisa Fentress at Alatri

With Giussy Nicolini where the blue begins

Remembering Albanian heroines

[II] Finding the senses: Hearing

Boreal Butrint and its golden oriels

Sublimity : hidden in the togate's folds

Fireworks at Copán

[III] Sight

Seeing beyond Sparta, Mistra

Sights and sanctuary at Saranda

Cavernous spectacles of colour : S. Michele at Olevano and the Crypt of the Original Sin

A Renaissance dream house at Visegrád

[IV] Smell

The smell of the desert : Doha and Al Zubarah

Smelling spices in Sana'a

The disturbing scent of gold : Roşia Montană, Transylvania

[V] Taste

Tuscan cooking classes and S. Pietro d'Asso

Red mullet and retsina on Aegina

The taste of Key lime pie

[VI] Touch

Touching "gold" in Gordion

In touch with Rome's ex-pat dead : Rome's non-Catholic cemetery

Bunga bunga?

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350012646

1350012645

OCLC:

952789662