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Archaeology's Visual Culture - Digging and Desire (Hardcover)
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Archaeology's Visual Culture - Digging and Desire (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology
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Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens
of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is
a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of
our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this
projection of the visual, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the
imagery of archaeology and acknowledging the multiplicity of
meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and
museum displays. Using a wide range of case studies, the book
highlights how archaeologists can view objects and the consequences
that ensue from these ways of seeing. Throughout the book Balm
considers the potential for documentary images and visual material
held in archives to perform cultural work within and between groups
of specialists. With primary sources ranging from the
mid-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, this volume also
maps the intellectual and social connections between archaeologists
and their peers. Geographical settings include Britain, Cyprus,
Mesoamerica, the Middle East and the United States, and the sites
of visual encounter are no less diverse, ranging from excavation
reports in salvage archaeology to instrumentally derived data-sets
and remote-sensing imagery. By forensically examining selected
visual records from published accounts and archival sources,
enduring tropes of representation become apparent that transcend
issues of style and reflect fundamental visual sensibilities within
the discipline of archaeology.
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