Review of Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski (eds) Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, ruination and political action

dc.contributor.authorFrederick, Ursula
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-25T00:22:21Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-05-19T08:20:00Z
dc.description.abstractIt has been more than 15 years since Victor Buchli and Gavin Lucas published Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past (2001), a seminal volume that took up where the Archae-ologies of Us (Gould and Schiffer 1981) left off, ostensibly kick-starting a field of research concerned with the archaeological study of the recent or ‘contemporary past’. Since that time several texts (Frederick and Clarke 2016; Holtorf and Piccini 2009; Harrison and Schofield 2009, 2010; Graves-Brown et al. 2013) have aimed to undertake archae-ologies ‘in and of the present’ (Harrison 2011). Within much of this literature there is a prevailing trend to avoid delineating or defining the ‘boundaries’ of the field too strictly, whether in temporal, material, theoretical or methodological terms. Indeed, contemporary archaeology is often framed as an exploratory and nascent branch of study and its practitioners consistently emphasise the ‘always becoming’ nature of archaeology in general (Witmore 2013:139). This tone of emergence and openness lends the field a genuine excitement and sense of possibility, but at times it can also reinforce a provisional quality in the writing, as though it is proposition of what might be doneen_AU
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dc.identifier.issn1322-9214en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/186539
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherAustralasian Society for Historical Archaeologyen_AU
dc.sourceAustralasian Historical Archaeologyen_AU
dc.titleReview of Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski (eds) Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, ruination and political actionen_AU
dc.typeReviewen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage94en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage93en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFrederick, Ursula, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu4033332@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidFrederick, Ursula, u4033332en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor210108 - Historical Archaeology (incl. Industrial Archaeology)en_AU
local.identifier.absfor169999 - Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.absseo959999 - Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classifieden_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationU1021258xPUB161en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume36en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByU1021258en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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