Seeking to move beyond the customary limits of archaeological prose and representation,Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology presents archaeology in a variety of nontraditional formats. The volume demonstrates that visual art, creative nonfiction, archaeological fiction, video, drama, and other artistic pursuits have much to offer archaeological interpretation and analysis.
Chapters in the volume are augmented by narrative, poetry, paintings, dialogues, online databases, videos, audio files, and slideshows. The work will be available in print and as an enhanced ebook that incorporates and showcases the multimedia elements in archaeological narrative. While exploring these new and not-so-new forms, the contributors discuss the boundaries and connections between empirical data and archaeological imagination.
Both a critique and an experiment, Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology addresses the goals, advantages, and difficulties of alternative forms of archaeological representation. Exploring the idea that academically sound archaeology can be fun to create and read, the book takes a step beyond the boundaries of both traditional archaeology and traditional publishing.
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Subjects and Narratives in Archaeology will prove invaluable not only to new generations of scholars trying to find ways to keep archaeology relevant to a rapidly changing world but also to anyone teaching a class on topics such as professional ethics, archaeological writing, and archaeology and its place in society. Anne Porter, James Madison University
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1 Alternative Narratives and the Ethics of Representation: An Introduction |
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2 Creating Narratives of the Past as Recombinant Histories |
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3 Authoritative and Ethical Voices: From Diktat to the Demotic |
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4 The Chacoan Past: Creative Representations and Sensory Engagements |
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5 Landscape: The Reservoir of the Unconscious |
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6 Archaeologists as Storytellers: The Docudrama |
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7 Constructive Imagination and the Elusive Past: Playwriting as Method |
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8 The Archaeologist as Writer |
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9 Eleven Minutes and Forty Seconds in the Neolithic: Underneath Archaeological Time |
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10 The Talking Potsherds: Archaeologists as Novelists |
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11 Limits of Archaeological Emplotments from the Perspective of Excavating Nazi Extermination Centers |
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12 From Imaginations of a Peopled Past to a Recognition of Past People |
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13 Wrestling with Truth: Possibilities and Peril in Alternative Narrative Forms |
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| List of Contributors |
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Ruth M. Van Dyke is professor of anthropology at Binghamton University, SUNY. She is an archaeologist specializing in the North American Southwest, and her research interests include landscape, architecture, power, memory, phenomenology, and visual representation. She directs projects on the Chaco landscape in northwest New Mexico and on historic Alsatian immigration in Texas.
Reinhard Bernbeck is professor at the Institute for Near Eastern Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin. His research interests include the emergence of inequality in ancient societies and the political dimension of archaeological representations. He codirects multi-year excavation projects at Monjukli Depe in Turkmenistan and at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin.
