Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow
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Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow

  1. 206 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow

About this book

Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow explores how cutting-edge archaeological theories have implications not only for how we study the past but also how we think about and prepare for the future.

Ranging from how we understand migration or political leadership to how we think about violence or ecological crisis, the book argues that archaeology should embrace a "future-oriented" attitude. Behind the traditional archaeological gaze on the past is a unique and useful collection of skills, tools, and orientations for rethinking the present and future. Further, it asserts that archaeological theory is not only vital for how we conduct our work as archaeologists and how we create narratives about the past but also for how we think about the broader world in the present and, crucially, how we envision and shape the future. Each of the chapters in the book links theoretical approaches and global archaeological case studies to a specific contemporary issue. It examines such issues as human movement, violence, human and non-human relations, the Anthropocene, and fake news to showcase the critical contributions that archaeology, and archaeological theory, can make to shaping the world of tomorrow.

An ideal book for courses on archaeology in the modern world and public archaeology, it will also appeal to archaeology students and researchers in general and all those in related disciplines interested in areas of critical contemporary concern.

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Yes, you can access Archaeology for Today and Tomorrow by Craig N. Cipolla,Rachel J. Crellin,Oliver J. T. Harris in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Archaeology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032154305
eBook ISBN
9781003819783
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Archaeology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Provocations
  9. List of figures
  10. List of tables
  11. 1 Building an archaeology for today and tomorrow: an introduction
  12. 2 Archaeology and migration: more-than-human movements
  13. 3 Archaeology and capitalism: flows and desires
  14. 4 Leaders of the past, leaders in the future: rethinking power
  15. 5 Violence across the human/non-human divide: the virtual and the actual
  16. 6 All the world’s a type: rethinking difference and taxonomy
  17. 7 How we know the past: truth as relational and emergent
  18. 8 The past as multiple: positive difference, ontological difference
  19. 9 Archaeology and the Anthropocene: futurity and affect
  20. 10 Building an archaeology for today and tomorrow: a conclusion
  21. References cited
  22. Index