Images, Representations and Heritage Moving Beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology

Name: Images, Representations and Heritage Moving Beyond Modern Approaches to Archaeology
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ISBN: 9780387322155

ISBN-10: 0387322159

ISBN-13: 9780387322155

Edition: 2006

Authors: Ian Russell

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Recent archaeological theory has show that images of the past have carried a particularly strong resonance within modern social groups. This volume explores the immeasurable impact that the phenomenon of archaeology has had on the representation of the past in the modern world. Modern societys archaeological imagination conceives of archaeology as a producer of images of the past which become representations of modern group identities. If archaeology is utilized by public groups to construct and represent identities, then what are archaeologists to do with that public?nbsp;The very fact that the public is interested in the past and in archaeological research is an opportunity for…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 6/21/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 3.674
Language: English



Introductions : images of the past : archaeologies, modernities, crises and poetics




Archaeological tourism : a signpost to national identity




Irish images on English goods in the American market the materialization of a modern Irish heritage




Representing spirit : heathenry, new-indigenes and the imaged past




The role of archaeology in presenting the past to the public




Assessing the role of digital technologies for the development of cultural resources as socio-economic assets




Experiencing archaeology in the dream society




Towards archaeologies of memories of the past and planning futures : engaging the Faustian bargain of 'crises of interpretation'




Collective memory and the museum : towards a reconciliation of philosophy, history and memory in Daniel Libeskind's Jewish museum




The simulacra and simulations of Irish Neolithic passage tombs




Practice makes perfect : a discussion of the place of the brochure image in landscape tourism




Bog bodies and bog lands : trophies of science, art and the imagination




Who wants to visit a cultural heritage site? : a walk through an archaeological site with a visual and bodily experience



Concluding remarks : imagining the past : moving beyond modern approaches to archaeology