"Archaeologists may never get to know past reality objectively; but science works.
We are not even fighting an illusion; ... The scale and nature of the reaction to the
book shows this, we think. TV sets do work, but science is a subtle field of
practice and is only one mode of perception and explanation. There are others
perhaps ..."
"Archaeological theory and method have recently become the subject of vigorous debate centred on the growing realization that archaeological theory is social theory and as such can be looked at by means of a wide variety of sociological frameworks, such as structuralism and post-structuralism, Marxism and critical theory. In this analysis, Shanks and Tilley argue against the functionalism and positivism which result from an inadequate as ..."
"Theatre/Archaeology is a provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to generate a startlingly original and intriguing methodological framework."
Art and the Early Greek State (New Studies in Archaeology) por MichaelShanks Hardcover, 256 Páginas, Publicado 1999 por Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-56117-4, ISBN: 0-521-56117-5
"Widely known as an innovative figure in contemporary archaeology, Michael Shanks has written a challenging contribution to recent debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC. He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments, foreign trade, warfare, and the ideology of male sovereignty. Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, which draws o ..."
"Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of essential questions: What are the principle signifiers of theatrical presence? How is presence achie ..."
Political and Economic Planning Ser. Planning and Politics : The British Experience, 1960-76 por MichaelShanks Hardcover, 144 Páginas, Publicado 1977 por Allen & Unwin ISBN-13: 978-0-04-330283-5, ISBN: 0-04-330283-1
"Archaeology is a way of acting and thinking about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains, about material and temporal processes to which people and their goods are subject, about the processes of order and entropy, of making, consuming and discarding at the heart of human experience. These elements, and the practices that archaeologists follow to uncover them, is the essence of the archaeological imagination. In ..."
"Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 2004 Pages: 552 Publisher: Camidge. University Press widely known as an innovative figure in contemporary archeology. Michael Shanks has written a Challenging Contribution to Recent Debates on the emergence of the Greek city states in the first millennium BC . He interprets the art and archaeological remains of Korinth to elicit connections between new urban environments. foreign trade. warfare. and ..."
"There has been a profound shift in the direction of archaeological activity in the last fifteen years, a change reflected in this volume. While excavation remains a professional priority, the interpretation of archaeological evidence is now attracting increasing critical study. In part this is stemmed from the public demand for explanation of archaeological evidence, which moves beyond the more restricted academic debate among archaeolo ..."
"There has been a profound shift in the direction of archaeological activity in the last fifteen years, a change reflected in this volume. While excavation remains a professional priority, the interpretation of archaeological evidence is now attracting increasing critical study. In part this stems from the public demand for explanation of archaeological evidence, which moves beyond the more restricted academic debate among archaeologists ..."
""This book provides perspective revealing the intellectual, historical and practical depths of archaeology's embedded role within cultural production."
"critical archaeology', Current Anthropology 28: 283-302 Lumley, R. (ed.) (1988).
The Museum Time Machine, Comedia/Routledge Miller, D., Rowlands, M. and
Tilley, C. (eds.) ... The Archaeology of Inequality, Blackwell, Oxford Pearce, S. (ed
.) ..."
"This is the challenge faced by John Wallis as part of a growing association from
the sixteenth century in northern Europe of ... As in the genre of travel writing,
Wallis, presenting his itineraries, is the interlocutor, a guide. ... The storyteller
engages an audience and can critically interrupt the narrative with commentary,
offering location and context, alternative standpoints. ... In Wanderlust (2001) she
presented a history ..."
"This volume provides a forum for debate between varied approaches to the past. The authors, drawn from Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia, represent many different strands of archaeology. They address the philosophical issues involved in interpretation and a desire among archaeologists to come to terms with their own subjective approaches to the material they study, a recognition of how past researchers have also imposed their ..."
"I think a major influence for both Mary and me is Dave Fredrickson, who is a local
prehistorian and whose faculty job I got when he retired. But even more than that,
he is a great man, a great human being. The learning-bydoing model that I have
been describing is his model, not mine. His idea was that the relationship
between the principal investigator and their underlings and students should be
humane. It is the antithesis of the ..."
"Archaeology unlocks the secrets of Greece's ancient past. Explore the ruins of Greece and Turkey, on land and under sea. In 1870, amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovers Hissarlik, part of Troy. In 1939, the palace of King Nestor in the Mycenaean city of Messina is unearthed near Pylos. In 1996, artifacts from the city, burned around 1200 B.C., link the site to Homer's Odyssey. In 1983, a Turkish diver locates the world ..."