Forthcoming Politics of Archaeology Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Reclaiming Archaeology

   Beyond the Tropes of Modernity

   Edited by Alfredo González-Ruibal

   Series: Archaeological Orientations

   Archaeology has been an important source of metaphors for some of the key intellectuals of the 20th century: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Alois Riegl and Michel Foucault, amongst many others. However, this power has also turned against archaeology, because the discipline has been dealt with...

   To Be Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. Contested Objects

   Material Memories of the Great War

   Edited by Nicholas J. Saunders, Paul Cornish

   Contested Objects breaks new ground in the interdisciplinary study of material culture. Its focus is on the rich and varied legacy of objects from the First World War as the global conflict that defined the twentieth century. From the iconic German steel helmet to practice trenches on Salisbury...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Histories of Egyptology

   Interdisciplinary Measures

   Edited by William Carruthers

   Series: Routledge Studies in Egyptology

   Egypt is currently undergoing a process of redefinition. As the country’s recent history is questioned, so it is more important than ever for the discipline of Egyptology – whose constructions of Egypt’s ancient history are borne of the modern, colonial encounter – to grapple with its own difficult...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. Ruin Memories

   Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past

   Edited by Bjørnar Olsen, Þóra Péturdóttir

   Series: Archaeological Orientations

   Since the 19th century, mass-production, consumerism and cycles of material replacement have accelerated; increasingly larger amounts of things are increasingly rapidly victimized and made redundant. At the same time processes of destruction have immensely intensified, although largely overlooked...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge