Archaeology

The Discipline of Things

By: BjÂ¿rnar Olsen, Michael Shanks, Timothy Webmoor, Christopher Witmore

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Hardcover | 19 November 2012 | Edition Number 1

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"This book exhorts the reader to embrace the materiality of archaeology by recognizing how every step in the discipline's scientific processes involves interaction with myriad physical artifacts, ranging from the camel-hair brush to profile drawings to virtual reality imaging. At the same time, the reader is taken on a phenomenological journey into various pasts, immersed in the lives of peoples from other times, compelled to engage their senses with the sights, smells, and noises of the publics and places whose remains they study. This is a refreshingly original and provocative look at the meaning of the material culture that lies at the foundation of the archaeological discipline."--Michael Brian Schiffer, author of The Material Life of Human Beings

"This volume is a radical call to fundamentally rethink the ontology, profession, and practice of archaeology. The authors present a closely reasoned, epistemologically sound argument for why archaeology should be considered the discipline of things, rather than its more commonplace definition as the study of the human past through material traces. All scholars and students of archaeology will need to read and contemplate this thought-provoking book."--Wendy Ashmore, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside

"A broad, illuminating, and well-researched overview of theoretical problems pertaining to archaeology. The authors make a calm defense of the role of objects against tedious claims of 'fetishism.'"--Graham Harman, author of The Quadruple Object

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"Illuminating... Recommended." -- A. B. Kehoe, Emeritus, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Choice "The messages found in The Discipline of Things should resonate across the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and material culture studies, attracting readers ranging from traditional material culture researchers to those with a postprocessualist tendency." -- Thomas E. Emerson American Journal of Archaeology "Genuinely thoughtful about the nature (or natures) of archaeology ... refreshingly original." Journal of Anthropological Research

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Preface
Introduction: Caring about Things
The Ambiguity of Things: Contempt and Desire
Engagements with Things: The Making of Archaeology
Digging Deep: Archaeology and Excavation
Things in Translation: Documents and Imagery
Futures for Things: Memory Practices and Digital Translation
Timely Things: From Argos to Mycenae and Beyond
Making and the Design of Things: Human Being and the Shape of History
Getting on with Things: A Material Metaphysics of Care
References
Index
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