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Product Description: It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practiced have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances--archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself: how we might undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present...read more
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9780199602001 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 10, 2013, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practiced have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances--archaeology is always carried out in the present.
Automobile assembly lines. Nevada Peace Camps. Freeze-dried remains from Antarctic expeditions. The archaeology of tigers. With increasing frequency, archaeologists are transferring their toolkit from the study of the ancient world to research the contemporary one. This volume provides many examples of that, and more. âContemporary archaeologies marry archaeology in the modern world with the archaeology of the modern worldâ according to the editors, who asked each author to present not only their research on an aspect of todayâs existence but also to reveal something about the role and practice of archaeology in the contemporary world. The resulting volume, using both traditional articles and experimental texts, challenges the reader to think of archaeology in new and innovative ways.
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9781598742428 | Left Coast Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: Automobile assembly lines.
9781844720873 | Cavendish Pub Ltd, August 1, 2006, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: 0000000000000 0000000000 0000000000000
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9783631611425 | 2 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 21, 2011), cover price $50.95
9783631576373 | 1 edition (Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 30, 2009), cover price $56.95 | About this edition: This book is about the archaeology of the present and the very recent past.
9781598742435 | Left Coast Pr, April 30, 2007, cover price $34.95
Product Description: Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen presents a thoroughgoing exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project for the twenty-first century. Focussing on the most fleeting and yet pervasive practices of the performance and screen arts, it both documents and analyses the practical-theoretical integration of hands-on creative and scholarly methods of research...read more
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9780230220010 | Har/com edition (Palgrave Macmillan, September 15, 2009), cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen presents a thoroughgoing exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project for the twenty-first century.
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9780819801975 | Pauline Books & Media, June 1, 1985, cover price $1.75
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