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Oxford Handbook Of The Archaeology
. Ed(S): Graves-Brown, Paul; Harrison, Rodney; Piccini, Angela
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Description for Oxford Handbook Of The Archaeology
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Graves-Brown, Paul; Harrison, Rodney; Piccini, Angela. Series: Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology. Num Pages: 864 pages, 140 in-text illustrations and 3 photograph based essays. BIC Classification: 3J; HDD; HDW; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 249 x 182 x 48. Weight in Grams: 2010.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
864
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Number of Pages
852
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199602001
SKU
V9780199602001
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About . Ed(S): Graves-Brown, Paul; Harrison, Rodney; Piccini, Angela
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Oxford Handbook Of The Archaeology
contains a richly eclectic collection of papers ... their collective impact lies in their remarkable and unpredictable diversity.
Dr John Manley, Current Archaeology
Dr John Manley, Current Archaeology