Ruin Memories (eBook, ePUB)

Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
Redaktion: Olsen, Bjørnar; Pétursdóttir, Þóra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The archaeology of the recent or contemporary past has grown fast during the last decade. This development has been concurrent with a broader popular, artistic and scholarly interest in modern ruins in general. Ruin Memories explores how the ruins of modernity are conceived and assigned cultural value in contemporary academic and public discourses, reassesses the cultural and historical value of modern ruins and suggests possible means for reaffirming their cultural and historic significance. Anybody interested in the archaeology of the contemporary past will find this an essential guide to the very latest theoretical research in this emerging field of archaeological thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317695790
• Artikelnr.: 40831150

Autorenporträt

Bjørnar Olsen is Professor of Archaeology at the Department of Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Tromsø, Norway. His research interests include Sámi culture, contemporary archaeology, material culture, and thing theory. His latest books are In Defense of Things: Archaeology and the Ontology of Objects (2010), Persistent Memories: Pyramiden - a Soviet mining town in the High Arctic (2010, with E. Andreassen and H. Bjerck), and Archaeology: The Discipline of Things (2012,with M. Shanks, T. Webmoor and C. Witmore).He is director of the Ruin Memories project. Þóra Pétursdóttir defended her doctoral thesis in archaeology, with the title Concrete Matters: towards an archaeology of things, at the University of Tromsø, Norway, in November 2013. Her main research interests lie in archaeological theory and practice, thing theory and archaeology of the recent past and present.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Ruins - concepts
theories and attitudes 2. Modern ruins and heritage 3. Material memory 4. Aesthetics
art
attraction 5. Abandonment 6. Archaeologies of the recent past