Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Sarah Surface-Evans is Senior Archaeologist at the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office.

“This book, in and of itself, is a timescape—one that forces the reader to contend with the fact that we are all living in ‘graveyards,’ whether we are conscious of it or not.” • Hist.Arch“This book is an exciting and invigorating experience for the reader. The reader is asked to engage actively with stories that stand outside typical conventions of scholarly narratives, and the quality of the writing makes that an easy task…Blurring ideas of time and space allow other critical aspects of the tangible and intangible to come into sharp focus, and gently provoke new ways of thinking and knowing.” • Jane Baxter, DePaul University“This collection represents contemporary archaeological praxis that realigns the possibilities of archaeological theory through radical, brave, and at times vulnerable intersectional standpoints that inform a new way forward. The case studies, analysis, and life stories stay with you after you read it; it haunts you.” • Uzma Z. Rizvi, Pratt Institute

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionSarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, and Kisha SupernantPart I: Imagining Timescapes: Invoking Haunting, Memory, and NostalgiaChapter 1. Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating across Timescapes and between WorldviewsApril M. BeisawChapter 2. Material Memories: Interpreting Souvenirs and Heirlooms in the Archaeological RecordErica BegunChapter 3. Journeys through Space and Time: Materiality, Social Memory, and Community at the City of DavidHeather Van WormerPart II: Confronting Lingering SpectersChapter 4. Recognizing Ghosts and Haunting in the Rural Midwest: Finding Community, Identity, and Wisdom in the PastP. M. W. LawtonChapter 5. The Unwilling Student and the Ghost of Physical Anthropology: Public Perceptions of the Ethics of Physical AnthropologyNicole M. BurtChapter 6. From Haunted to Haunting: Métis Ghosts in the Past and PresentKisha SupernantPart III: Identifying Ghosts within the Capitalist Landscapes of Late ModernityChapter 7. Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow: Haunting, Trauma, and the Cruelty of the Agrarian DreamLilian BrislenChapter 8. Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost StoryA. E. GarrisonChapter 9. Traumascapes: Progress and the Erasure of the PastSarah Surface-EvansChapter 10. Brickwork, Capitalism, Collective Memory, and the CommonsBrigitte H. BechtoldEpilogue: Ghosts, Haunting, and Refusals to ErasureKisha Supernant, April M. Beisaw, A. E. Garrison, and Sarah Surface-EvansIndex