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Author(s): Paul Graves-Brown (editor), Rodney Harrison (editor), Angela Piccini (editor)
ISBN(s): 9780199602001, 019960200X
Edition: 1
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Year: 2013
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 019960200X 
ISBN 13: 9780199602001
Author: Paul Graves Brown, Rodney Harrison, Angela Piccini

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 undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present. This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past. In addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working on the relationships of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film, performance, and contemporary art. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. It makes a significant intervention by drawing together scholars working on a broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World 1st Table of contents:

1. Introduction

Part I Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
2. The Relationship between Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past: A Historical Investigation
3. Forensic Archaeology
4. Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Material Worlds
5. The Place of Things in Contemporary History
6. Canonical Affordances: The Psychology of Everyday Things
7. To the Things Themselves Again: Observations on What Things are and Why They Matter
8. STS, Symmetry, Archaeology
9. Actor-Network-Theory Approaches to the Archaeology of Contemporary Architecture
10. Global Media and Archaeologies of Network Technologies
11. Performance and the Stratigraphy of Place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here

Part II Recurrent Themes
12. Time
13. Absence
14. Ruins
15. Memory
16. Authenticity
17. Sectarianism
18. Afterlives
19. Waste
20. Heritage
21. Difference
22. Modernism
23. Protest
24. Homelessness
25. Conflict
26. Disaster
27. Scale

Part III Mobilities, Space, Place
28. Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity
29. The Archaeology of Space Exploration
30. Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies
31. Archaeologies of Automobility
32. Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave Goods and Blithe Mementoes
33. ‘A Dirtier Reality?’ Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project
34. Heritage and Modernism in New York
35. Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An Autoarchaeology of War, Heritage, and the City
36. Race and Prosaic Materiality: the Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line

Photo Essay: Institutional Spaces

Part IV Media and Mutabilities
37. Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology
38. Two Riots: the Importance of Civil Unrest in Contemporary Archaeology
39. The Materiality of Film
40. The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
41. Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter, and Making Place
42. Material Animals: An Archaeology of Contemporary Zoo Experiences

Photo Essay: On Salvage Photography

Part V Things and Connectivities
43. Silicon Valley
44. Building Thought into Things
45. Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body
46. The Material Cellphone
47. The Contemporary Material Culture of the Cult of the Infant: Constructing Children as Desiring Subjects
48. VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and Distribution
49. Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles

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