Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9780415514835 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str.

Michael Shanks

Opis

In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

Recenzje

`This is a brave and pioneering attempt to explore new territory, and it provokes many questions.' - Times Higher Education Supplement

Spis treści

Introduction; Prelude: The Visit; Part 1 Archaeological Method; Chapter 1 Trees and Gardens; Part 2 Archaeological Interests; Chapter 2 Desire and Metaphor; Chapter 3 Perfume and Violence; Part 3 The Encounter with the Past; Chapter 4 What is the Archaeological Past?; Chapter 5 Wallington Hall; Chapter 6 Experience and the Past; Chapter 7 Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland; Part 4 Working Archaeology; Chapter 8 The Craft of Archaeology; Chapter 9 An Archaeological Poetics; Chapter 10 Death and the Domestic;

O autorze

Shanks, Michael