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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827574903321

Autore

Shanks Michael

Titolo

The archaeological imagination / / Michael Shanks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-41915-7

1-315-41917-3

1-61132-784-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology - Philosophy

Imagination

Archaeology - Social aspects

Archaeology - Methodology

Archaeology - History

Cultural property - Protection

Antiquities - Collection and preservation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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-Scè€ne -- Topology and Time -- Collectors and Conservators -- An Archaeological Narratology -- The Archaeological Imagination.

Sommario/riassunto

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