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Zusatztext contains a richly eclectic collection of papers ... their collective impact lies in their remarkable and unpredictable diversity. Informationen zum Autor Paul Graves-Brown is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. In addition to the edited volume Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture (2000), he has published widely on topics as diverse as the Sex Pistols and the Kalashnikov AK47.Rodney Harrison is a Reader in Archaeology, Heritage and Museum Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is currently Chair of the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) Group. He is the author (with John Schofield) of After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past (OUP, 2010), and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology.Angela Piccini is a Senior Lecturer in Screen Media at the School of Arts, University of Bristol. She co-founded the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) Group with Dan Hicks, and sits on the Committee for Audio-Visual Scholarship and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR). She publishes on place, materiality, and screen media. Klappentext This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding sub-field in archaeology, the study of the present and recent past. It seeks to explore the boundaries of this emerging area, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods, which are applicable to this new sub-field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. Zusammenfassung This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of a rapidly expanding sub-field in archaeology, the study of the present and recent past. It seeks to explore the boundaries of this emerging area, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods, which are applicable to this new sub-field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Contributors List of Figures Introduction Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives 2: Kathryn Fewster: The relationship between ethnoarchaeology and archaeologies of the contemporary past: a historical investigation 3: Natasha Powers and Lucy Sibun: Forensic archaeology 4: Penny Harvey: Anthropological approaches to contemporary material worlds 5: Tim Cole: The place of things in contemporary history 6: Alan Costall and Ann Richards: Canonical affordances: the psychology of everyday things 7: James Gordon Finlayson: To the things themselves again: observations on what things are and why they matter 8: Timothy Webmoor: STS, symmetry, archaeology 9: Albena Yaneva: Actor-Network-Theory approaches to the archaeology of contemporary architecture 10: Sean Cubitt: Global media and archaeologies of network technologies 11: Wrights and Sites (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith and Cathy Turner): Performance and the stratigraphy of place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here Part 2: Recurrent Themes 12: Laurent Olivier: Time 13: Severin Fowles and Kaet Heupel: Absence 14: Gavin Lucas: Ruins 15: Bjørnar Olsen: Memory 16: Paul Graves-Brown: Authenticity 17: Laura McAtackney: Sectarianism 18: Michael Brian Schiffer: Afterlives 19: Joshua Reno: Waste 20: Rodney Harrison: Heritage 21: Denis Byrne: Difference 22: Alfredo González-Ruibal: Modernism 23: Anna Badcock and Robert Johnston: Protest 24: Larry J. Zimmerman: Homelessness 25: Gabriel Moshenska: Conflict 26: Richard A. Gould: Disaster 27: Matt Edgeworth: Scale Part 3: Mobilities, Space, Place 28: Mimi Sheller: Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity 29: Alice C. Gorman and Beth Laura O Leary: The Archaeology of Space Exploration 30: Nick Shepherd: Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologi...
