1st Edition

Experiencing the Past On the Character of Archaeology

By Michael Shanks Copyright 1992
    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    240 Pages
    by Routledge

    In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.

    Introduction; Prelude: The Visit; Part 1 Archaeological Method; Chapter 1 Trees and Gardens; Part 2 Archaeological Interests; Chapter 2 Desire and Metaphor; Chapter 3 Perfume and Violence; Part 3 The Encounter with the Past; Chapter 4 What is the Archaeological Past?; Chapter 5 Wallington Hall; Chapter 6 Experience and the Past; Chapter 7 Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland; Part 4 Working Archaeology; Chapter 8 The Craft of Archaeology; Chapter 9 An Archaeological Poetics; Chapter 10 Death and the Domestic;

    Biography

    Shanks, Michael

    `This is a brave and pioneering attempt to explore new territory, and it provokes many questions.' - Times Higher Education Supplement