Planning and politics: The British experience 1960-1976

Shanks, Michael

Political and Economic Planning

The stagnant society (Pelican books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Penguin

In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology (Material Cultures)

Reference

Routledge

Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their interests and aims. Michael Shanks's enlivening work is a guide to the discipline of classical archaeology and its objects. It assesses archaeology as a means of reconstructing ancient Greek society using the latest approaches of social archaeology. In addition, The Classical Archaeology of Greece outlines the history of the discipline and discusses why Classical Greece continues to fascinate us and why it has had such an impact on European civilization and identity.

Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (The Experience of Archaeology)

History

Americas

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reconstructing Archaeology

Archaeology

Classical Archaeology of Greece is for anyone who shares a fascination for the material remains of Classical Greece and wishes to understand how archaeologists have interpreted them.

The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (Experiences of Archaeology)

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Theatre/Archaeology

Pearson, Mike

Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework.

Humor & Entertainment

In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

Experiencing the Past (Material Cultures)

Archæology: The Discipline of Things

Archaeology has always been marked by its particular care, obligation, and loyalty to things. While archaeologists may not share similar perspectives or practices, they find common ground in their concern for objects monumental and mundane. This book considers the myriad ways that archaeologists engage with things in order to craft stories, both big and small, concerning our relations with materials and the nature of the past. Literally the “science of old things,” archaeology does not discover the past as it was but must work with what remains. Such work involves the tangible mediation of past and present, of people and their cultural fabric, for things cannot be separated from society. Things are us. This book does not set forth a sweeping new theory. It does not seek to transform the discipline of archaeology. Rather, it aims to understand precisely what archaeologists do and to urge practitioners toward a renewed focus on and care for things.

Archaeology: The Discipline of Things

Witmore, Christopher

Olsen, Bjørnar

Webmoor, Timothy

University of California Press

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Planning and politics: The British experience 1960-1976

The stagnant society (Pelican books)

Experiencing the Past: On the Character of Archaeology (Material Cultures)

Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (The Experience of Archaeology)

Reconstructing Archaeology

The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline (Experiences of Archaeology)

Theatre/Archaeology

Theatre/Archaeology

Experiencing the Past (Material Cultures)

Archaeology: The Discipline of Things