Archaeologies of memory /
As in the present, past peoples commemorated, constructed, and manipulated their past for their own social and political ends. Archaeologists can use a variety of evidence to study social memory and to recover past ideas about what the more distant past was like. Archaeologies of Memory is a groundb...
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| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Archaeologies of memory: an introduction
- Echoes of empire: Vijayanagara and historical memory, Vijayanagara as historical memory
- Memory's materiality: ancestral presence, commemorative practice and disjunctive locales
- Memory tattered and torn: spolia in the heartland of Byzantine Hellenism
- Glories of the past in the past: ritual activities at palatial ruins in Early Iron Age Crete
- Concrete memories: fragments of the past in the Classic Maya Present (500-1000 AD)
- Creating memory in prehistory: the engraved slate plaques of southwest Iberia
- Mounds, memory, and contested Mississippian history
- Memory and the construction of Chacoan society
- The familiar honeycomb: Byzantine era reuse of Sicily's prehistoric rock-cut tombs
- The translation of time.