The archaeological imagination / / Michael Shanks

• Autore: Shanks Michael
• Pubblicazione: Walnut Creek, Calif., : Left Coast Press, c2012; London : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (169 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Archaeology - Philosophy; Imagination; Archaeology - Social aspects; Archaeology - Methodology; Archaeology - History; Cultural property - Protection; Antiquities - Collection and preservation
• 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-Scène -- 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The archaeological imagination
• ISBN: 1-315-41915-7; 1-315-41917-3; 1-61132-784-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827574903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II