It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised 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.
This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past. In
addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working on the relationships of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film, performance, and contemporary art. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit
of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. It makes a significant intervention by drawing together scholars working on a
broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.
It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised 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.
This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past. In
addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working on the relationships of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film, performance, and contemporary art. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit
of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. It makes a significant intervention by drawing together scholars working on a
broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini:
Introduction
Part 1: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
2: Kathryn Fewster: The relationship between ethnoarchaeology and
archaeologies of the contemporary past: a historical
investigation
3: Natasha Powers and Lucy Sibun: Forensic archaeology
4: Penny Harvey: Anthropological approaches to contemporary
material worlds
5: Tim Cole: The place of things in contemporary history
6: Alan Costall and Ann Richards: Canonical affordances: the
psychology of everyday things
7: James Gordon Finlayson: To the things themselves again:
observations on what things are and why they matter
8: Timothy Webmoor: STS, symmetry, archaeology
9: Albena Yaneva: Actor-Network-Theory approaches to the
archaeology of contemporary architecture
10: Sean Cubitt: Global media and archaeologies of network
technologies
11: Wrights & Sites (Stephen Hodge, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith
and Cathy Turner): Performance and the stratigraphy of place:
Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here
Part 2: Recurrent Themes
12: Laurent Olivier: Time
13: Severin Fowles and Kaet Heupel: Absence
14: Gavin Lucas: Ruins
15: Bjørnar Olsen: Memory
16: Paul Graves-Brown: Authenticity
17: Laura McAtackney: Sectarianism
18: Michael Brian Schiffer: Afterlives
19: Joshua Reno: Waste
20: Rodney Harrison: Heritage
21: Denis Byrne: Difference
22: Alfredo González-Ruibal: Modernism
23: Anna Badcock and Robert Johnston: Protest
24: Larry J. Zimmerman: Homelessness
25: Gabriel Moshenska: Conflict
26: Richard A. Gould: Disaster
27: Matt Edgeworth: Scale
Part 3: Mobilities, Space, Place
28: Mimi Sheller: Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile
Modernity
29: Alice C. Gorman and Beth Laura O Leary: The Archaeology of
Space Exploration
30: Nick Shepherd: Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony:
Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies
31: Peter Merriman: Archaeologies of Automobility
32: Shannon Lee Dawdy: Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave
Goods and Blithe Mementos
33: John Schofield: A Dirtier Reality? Archaeological Methods and
the Urban Project
34: Laurie A. Wilkie: Heritage and Modernism in New York
35: Uzma Z. Rizvi: Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An
autoarchaeology of War, Heritage and the City
36: Paul R. Mullins: Race and Prosaic Materiality: The Archaeology
of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line
Peter Metelerkamp: Photoessay: Institutional Spaces
Part 4: Media and Mutabilities
37: Helen Wickstead: Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology
38: James R. Dixon: Two riots: The importance of civil unrest in
contemporary archaeology
39: Liz Watkins: The Materiality of Film
40: Carolyn L. White: The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology
of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
41: Angela Piccini: Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter and Making
Place
42: Cornelius Holtorf: Material Animals: An Archaeology of
Contemporary Zoo Experiences
Caitlin DeSilvey, with photographs by Steven Bond and Caitlin
DeSilvey: Photoessay: On Salvage Photography
Part 5: Things and Connectivities
43: Christine Finn: Silicon Valley
44: David de Léon: Building Thought into Things
45: Sefryn Penrose: Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body
46: Richard Maxwell and Toby Miller: The Material Cellphone
47: Sarah May: The contemporary material culture of the cult of the
infant: constructing children as desiring subjects
48: Jem Noble: VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and
Distribution
49: Pierre Lemonnier: Auto-anthropology, modernity and
automobiles
Yannis Hamilakis and Fotis Ifantidis: Photoessay: The Other
Acropolises: Multi-temporality and the Persistence of the Past
Index
Paul Graves-Brown is an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the
Institute of Archaeology, University College London. In addition to
the edited volume Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture (2000), he
has published widely on topics as diverse as the Sex Pistols and
the Kalashnikov AK47. Rodney Harrison is a Reader in Archaeology,
Heritage and Museum Studies at the Institute of Archaeology,
University College London. He is currently Chair of the
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) Group. He
is the author (with John Schofield) of After Modernity:
Archaeological Approaches to the Contemporary Past (OUP, 2010), and
founding editor of the
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology. Angela Piccini is a Senior
Lecturer in Screen Media at the School of Arts, University of
Bristol. She co-founded the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology
in Theory (CHAT) Group with Dan Hicks, and sits on the Committee
for Audio-Visual Scholarship and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR).
She publishes on place, materiality, and screen media.
contains a richly eclectic collection of papers ... their
collective impact lies in their remarkable and unpredictable
diversity.
*Dr John Manley, Current Archaeology*
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