1st Edition

Archaeology's Visual Culture Digging and Desire

By Roger Balm Copyright 2016
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

Archaeology’s Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology and acknowledging the multiplicity of... Read more

1. Insistent Visuality            



A Theoretical Framework           
Visual Culture as a Field of Investigation         
Images in Science            
Agents and Networks            



The Context of Modernity          
Rupture and Rapture           
Visual Stability           
Visual Instability           
Spaces of Display           
Looking Inwards and Seeing Through                     



2. Scopic Privilege and Appropriation        



Circulation of the Archaeological Story        
Cesnola and Squier in Print          



Set in Stone: Cesnola in Cyprus         
Temples, Tombs and Temptations         
Family Photographs           
Appraisal and Accusation          



Metrics and Meaning: Squier in South America       
Sizing-up Tiwanaku           
Photographing Tiwanaku        

Biography

Roger Balm is a geographer with a research interest in the ancient cultural landscapes of Mexico, South America and the Mediterranean. He was a 2010 Fulbright scholar in Cyprus and has also held a fellowship with the American Geographical Society. He is an independent scholar.