Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past turns what is usually seen as a method for investigating the distant past onto the present. In doing so, it reveals fresh ways of looking both at ourselves and modern society as well as the discipline of archaeology. This volume represents the most recent research in this area and examines a variety of contexts including: * Art Deco * landfills * miner strikes * college fraternities * an abandoned council house.
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'This book provides a long sequence of moving, powerful papers that confront and challenge us. the authors in this volume can be congratulated for pushing beyond the edges of the discipline and so opening a rather different vision.' Ian Hodder,from the Epilogue.
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Figures ix Contributors xi Acknowledgements xii Introduction 1(2) The absent present: archaeologies of the contemporary past 3(16) Victor Buchli Gavin Lucas PART I Production and consumption 19(58) Models of production and consumption 21(5) Victor Buchli Gavin Lucas Beyond consumption: toward an archaeology of consumerism 26(25) Teresita Majewski Michael Brian Schiffer Archaeology as the design history of the everyday 51(12) Greg Stevenson Integrated archaeology: a garbage paradigm 63(14) William Rathje PART II Remembering and forgetting 77(42) Between remembering and forgetting 79(5) Victor Buchli Gavin Lucas The politics of remembrance in the new South Africa 84(10) David Hart Sarah Winter Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War 1913-1914 94(14) The Ludlow Collective Black sharecroppers and white frat boys: living communities and the appropriation of their archaeological pasts 108(11) Laurie Wilkie PART III Disappearance and disclosure 119(50) Bodies of evidence 121(5) Victor Buchli Gavin Lucas Archaeology of World War 2: the Lancaster bomber of Fleville (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) 126(12) Jean-Pierre Legendre Science and human rights: truth, justice, reparation and reconciliation, a long way in Third World countries 138(7) Mercedes Doretti Luis Fondebrider Forensic archaeology in the UK: questions of socio-intellectual context and socio-political responsibility 145(13) Margaret Cox The archaeology of alienation: a late twentieth-century British council house 158(11) Victor Buchli Gavin Lucas Conclusions 169(23) Presencing absence 171(4) Victor Buchli Gavin Lucas The archaeology of the contemporary past 175(14) Laurent Olivier Epilogue 189(3) Ian Hodder Index 192
Buchli, Victor; Lucas, Gavin
