Michael Shanks has intervened in the proceedings of the Tara 2009 Symposium at UCD via iChat from Stanford University. You can read his paper here: http://documents.stanford.edu/MichaelShanks/400 ————————- Ian Russell – www.iarchitectures.com
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‘Epistemography’ and Archaeological Assembling. A Manifesto for Media.
Archaeology, Science and Technology Studies, University of Oxford In 1922 the Mexican scholar Arreola published a study of maps and images which he had recovered from archives in Mexico City. Much of the material that he presented had not been studied before. Much of it was quite old, some of it dating to the initial…
Gardner, A. 2007. An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain, Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press.
Robert Collins, University of Newcastle An Archaeology of Identity: Soldiers & Society in Late Roman Britain by Andrew Gardner (2007) is a work that strives to push forward the current understanding of the Roman Empire, accepting the challenge of incorporating social theory into Roman army studies (James 2002) and contextualizing the milites (soldiers) as social…
Island of Abandonment
Mandji is as beautiful and perfect as a tourist poster. But it is also a rubbish dump of history. A few bungalows are being built in the expectation of tourism. But tourists do not come. And the bungalows decay, even before being finished, while their owners leave for France or Spain in search of better…
Some Problems and Potential in Community Engagement and Making Archaeology Public
Alex R. Knodell Brown University I recently attended a conference in Greece that was put together with the admirable goal of creating a dialogue between a local community and academic archaeologists working in the area. Topics to be addressed were past and present archaeological fieldwork, public involvement with, and awareness of, the area’s rich archaeological…
Present absences: The ‘Home’ Project is installed in Dublin
The street art stencils for The Home Project were completed this week on Clanbrassil Street in Dublin. Activating heritage, community, identity and public space, the powerwasher stencils will be in situ until the foot traffic of Clanbrassil Street erases them through the accumulation of new residues and traces. Why not have a walk down Clanbrassil…