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After Modernity: Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2010
ISBN
0199548080, 0199548072, 9780199548088, 9780199548071, 9780191591365
LCC
CC72 .H37 2010
Open Library ID
OL24385370M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3993363 bytes)
Pages
320\339
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

After Modernity summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the archaeology of developed, de-industrialized societies during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. This period encompasses the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the 'internet age', a period which sits firmly within what we would recognize to be a period of 'lived and living memory'. Rodney Harrison and John Schofield explore how archaeology can inform the study of this time period and the study of our own society through detailed case studies and an in-depth summary of the existing literature. After Modernity draws together cross-disciplinary perspectives on contemporary material culture studies, and develops a new agenda for the study of the materiality of late modern societies.

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