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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Van Dyke, Ruth M., Alcock, Susan E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.