Laurent Olivier

The Dark Abyss of Time (eBook, PDF)

Archaeology and Memory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The field of archaeology continues to face a major crisis of interpretation. The traditional view is that the basic business of archaeology is to reconstruct the history of cultures and civilizations through their material productions. Olivier challenges this view with a new approach to archaeological remains based on the works of French theorists such as Foucault, de Certeaux, and Derrida, with insight from Darwin and Freud. His thesis is that archaeology does not study the past itself but rather what materially remains of the past in our present. Olivier also develops an interpretation of material culture based on Aby Warburg's and Walter Benjamin's work in the anthropology of art. With wider implications for history and all social sciences, The Dark Abyss of Time is a major contribution to the theory of time, memory, heritage, and archaeology. This flawless translation makes Olivier's elegantly written work available in English for the first time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216267690
• Artikelnr.: 75137562

Autorenporträt

Laurent Olivier is curator of the Department of Celtic and Gaulish archaeology at the National Museum of Archaeology in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris. He teaches at the École du Louvre and the École pratique des hautes études. He is working on a dig on the site of Iron Age salt marshes in Marsal (northeastern France). Arthur Greenspan is a professor of French at Colby College.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: In the Beginning
Chapter 2: When Once There Was a Once Upon a Time
Chapter 3: Pages Written in Earth
Chapter 4: An Archaeology of the Present
Chapter 5: A Field of Ruins
Chapter 6: Ragmen of the Past
Chapter 7: Palimpsests and Memory-Objects
Chapter 8: A Biology of Forms
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index