
Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?
Letters from the Field 1968-1974
- 194 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974). An introductory chapter provides background information to clarify references in the letters, additional new comments within the letters amplify points and events, and a final chapter sums up her post-dissertation years. The letters were written during lively times politically and socially, as well as archaeologically, in Greece and around the world. The author was often torn between immersing herself in the past and being involved in the upheavals of that present. The letters show her frequent questioning about whether to remain in archaeology or become an 'activist,' and how she eventually found ways to do both.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents Page
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1. The Background to the Letters
- Chapter 2. Getting to Greece. Off to my first dig, 1968
- Chapter 3. My First Dig, Porto Cheli, 1968
- Chapter 4. Fall Term at the American School, 1968
- Chapter 5. Winter term at the American School, 1969
- Chapter 6. More Digs: Turkey and Back to Greece, 1969
- Chapter 7. Beginning Dissertation Research, 1969-70
- Chapter 8. Wrapping up the Dissertation Research. Nafplion 1970: April-August
- Chapter 9. Avoiding, and Finally Starting the Dissertation, Athens 1973
- Chapter 10. Finishing the Dissertation, During a revolution.
- Bibliography
- Back cover