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Contemporary Archaeology and the City - Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,895
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Contemporary Archaeology and the City - Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action (Hardcover): Laura McAtackney, Krysta...

Contemporary Archaeology and the City - Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action (Hardcover)

Laura McAtackney, Krysta Ryzewski

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Contemporary Archaeology and the City foregrounds the archaeological study of post-industrial and other urban transformations through a diverse, international collection of case studies. Over the past decade contemporary archaeology has emerged as a dynamic force for dissecting and contextualizing the material complexities of present-day societies. Contemporary archaeology challenges conventional anthropological and archaeological conceptions of the past by pushing temporal boundaries closer to, if not into, the present. The volume is organized around three themes that highlight the multifaceted character of urban transitions in present-day cities - creativity, ruination, and political action. The case studies offer comparative perspectives on transformative global urban processes in local contexts through research conducted in the struggling, post-industrial cities of Detroit, Belfast, Indianapolis, Berlin, Liverpool, Belem, and post-Apartheid Cape Town, as well as the thriving urban centres of Melbourne, New York City, London, Chicago, and Istanbul. Together, the volume contributions demonstrate how the contemporary city is an urban palimpsest comprised by archaeological assemblages - of the built environment, the surface, and buried sub-surface - that are traces of the various pasts entangled with one another in the present. This volume aims to position the city as one of the most important and dynamic arenas for archaeological studies of the contemporary by presenting a range of theoretically-engaged case studies that highlight some of the major issues that the study of contemporary cities pose for archaeologists.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2017
Editors: Laura McAtackney (Associate Professor in Sustainable Heritage Management) • Krysta Ryzewski (Assistant Professor of Anthropology)
Dimensions: 241 x 163 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-880360-7
Categories: Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological theory
Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Archaeological methodology & techniques
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN: 0-19-880360-5
Barcode: 9780198803607

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