Dark Abyss of Time

Archaeology and Memory

AvLaurent Olivier

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-03-17
Mått:154 x 226 x 17 mm
Vikt:345 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Archaeology in Society
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780759120464

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Mer om författaren

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.

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The Dark Abyssof Time is … one of the most important works published in archaeology during my lifetime. It fundamentally questions the purpose and practice of the discipline as it is today, and successfully tries to move us beyond the sterile debates that have marred the history of archaeology for the last thirty or so years. It is the result of a wide and deep immersion in the roots of our current culture, and it is, to boot, beautiful to read!

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: In the BeginningChapter 2: When Once There Was a Once Upon a TimeChapter 3: Pages Written in EarthChapter 4: An Archaeology of the PresentChapter 5: A Field of RuinsChapter 6: Ragmen of the PastChapter 7: Palimpsests and Memory-ObjectsChapter 8: A Biology of FormsConclusionBibliographyIndex