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  • Cultural Heritage and the Future

    Edited by Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg ...
    Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • From Stonehenge to Las Vegas

    Archaeology as Popular Culture

    by Cornelius Holtorf ...
    Indiana Jones. Lara Croft. Archaeologist as folk hero, detective, treasure hunter. The meaning of things below the surface. The life history of Stonehenge. Las Vegas' Luxor Hotel. Copies of artifacts as contemporary kitch. The connections between archaeology and contemporary culture are endless. Cornelius Holtorf merges archaeological and cultural theory to take readers on an erudite tour of these ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Archaeology Is a Brand!

    The Meaning of Archaeology in Contemporary Popular Culture

    by Cornelius Holtorf ...
    What impact is there on the field to recognize that archaeology is a regular feature in daily life and popular culture? Based upon the study of England, Germany, Sweden and the USA, Cornelius Holtorf examines the commonalities and peculiarities of media portrayal of archaeology in these countries, and the differences between media presentations and audience knowledge and attraction to the subject, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations

    Edited by Cornelius Holtorf, Andreas Pantazatos, Geoffrey Scarre ...
    Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological heritage sites and artefacts, which help determine and maintain ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice

    Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations

    by Jonathan Bateman, Lisa Breglia, John Carman, Oguz Erdur, Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes, Charles Goodwin, Anders Gustafsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Dirk Jacobs, Hakon Karlsson, Angela McClanahan, David Van Reybrouck, Timoteo Rodriguez, Blythe E. Roveland, Michael Wilmore, Thomas Yarrow ...
    Series series Worlds of Archaeology
    Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World

    Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison, Angela Piccini ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself: how we might ... Read more

    $169.19 USD

  • Archaeology Matters

    Action Archaeology in the Modern World

    by Jeremy A Sabloff ...
    Series series Key Questions in Anthropology
    Archaeology is perceived to study the people of long ago and far away. How could archaeology matter in the modern world? Well-known archaeologist Jeremy Sabloff points to ways in which archaeology might be important to the understanding and amelioration of contemporary problems. Though archaeologists have commonly been associated with efforts to uncover cultural identity, to restore the past of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Archaeology

    Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

    Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal ...
    Series series Archaeological Orientations
    Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with perfunctorily as a mere provider of metaphors that other intellectuals have exploited. Scholars from ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Public Archaeology

    Edited by Nick Merriman ...
    Scrutinizing, in detail, the relationship between archaeology, heritage and the public, this much-needed volume explores public interest and participation in archaeology as a subject worthy of academic attention in its own right.Examining case studies from throughout the world; from North America, Britain, Egypt and Brazil to East Africa, China and beyond, Nick Merriman focuses on two key areas: ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology

    Edited by Ruth M. Van Dyke, Reinhard Bernbeck ...
    Seeking to move beyond the customary limits of archaeological prose and representation, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology presents archaeology in a variety of nontraditional formats. The volume demonstrates that visual art, creative nonfiction, archaeological fiction, video, drama, and other artistic pursuits have much to offer archaeological interpretation and analysis.Chapters in the volume ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Place, Memory, and Healing

    An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments

    by Ömür Harmanşah ...
    Place, Memory, and Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian Rock Monuments investigates the complex and deep histories of places, how they served as sites of memory and belonging for local communities over the centuries, and how they were appropriated and monumentalized in the hands of the political elites. Focusing on Anatolian rock monuments carved into the living rock at watery landscapes during ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Curious Lessons in the Museum

    The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

    by Claire Robins ...
    Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD