Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context / / edited by Julian Thomas and Vítor Oliveira Jorge

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle upon Tyne [England] : , : Cambridge Scholars Pub., , 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Archaeology; Archaeology - Political aspects; Postmodernism
• Altri autori: ThomasJulian <1959-> JorgeVítor Oliveira
• Note generali: "This book is the outcome of a one day working session ... held at the 2007 conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group at the University of York."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
• Sommario/riassunto: Archaeology is intimately connected to the modern regime of vision. A concern with optics was fundamental to the Scientific Revolution, and informed the moral theories of the Enlightenment. And from its inception, archaeology was concerned with practices of depiction and classification that were profoundly scopic in character. Drawing on both the visual arts and the depictive practices of the sciences, employing conventionalised forms of illustration, photography, and spatial technologies,...
• Titolo autorizzato: Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context
• ISBN: 1-282-18980-8; 9786612189807; 1-4438-0374-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780656603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II