Undoing Things

List of Figures;List of Tables; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Introduction; Section 1. Undoing Objects: Chapter 2. Decomposition: Book History Beyond the Book; Chapter 3. Letting be(come): Undoings at the Museum; Chapter 4. Precarious Heritage and Weak Artifacts: the Doing and Undoing of the Polish Women's Strike; Chapter 5. Undoing and Entropy in the Archaeological Record; Chapter 6. The Doing in Undoing; Section 2. Undoing Bodies: Chapter 7. Undoing Animals among the Classic Maya: Turtles, Deer and Monkeys; Chapter 8. How to Assemble a Cross-Species History. Herders, Dams, Animal Younglings, and the Substance of Milk; Chapter 9. Undoing Animals and the Consequences; Abattoirs and Other Sources of Waste in 18th-and 19th-Century New Orleans; Chapter 10. Undoing African American Human Remains; Section 3. Undoing Places: Chapter 11. Revenant Landscapes: Toxic Industrial Waste and the Archaeology of Slow Violence; Chapter 12. Geographies of Undoing; Chapter 13. Places Undone by Terrain; Chapter 14. Before and after the Flood: Archaeological Sites and the Exploitation of Rivers in Northern Sweden; Chapter 15. The Politics of Precarity and the Undoing of Agricultural Expansion on the Medieval Deccan, Southern India; Section 4. Undoing Worlds: Chapter 16. Settler Ontocide; Chapter 17. Recalcitrant Data and the Concept of Decline in the Archaeology of Plantation Sites; Chapter 18. Death and the Maiden - Scars and the Mnemonics of Ruination; Chapter 19. Archaeologies of Black Futurity: Sketches of Liberia's Monuments and Ruins; Chapter 20. Contemporary Doomsday Devices and the Undoing of End-Times; Index.