Description
Book SynopsisArchaeology for Today and Tomorrow explores how cutting-edge archaeological theories have implications not only for how we study the past but also how we think about and prepare for the future.
Ranging from how we understand migration or political leadership to how we think about violence or ecological crisis, the book argues that archaeology should embrace a future-oriented attitude. Behind the traditional archaeological gaze on the past is a unique and useful collection of skills, tools, and orientations for rethinking the present and future. Further, it asserts that archaeological theory is not only vital for how we conduct our work as archaeologists and how we create narratives about the past but also for how we think about the broader world in the present and, crucially, how we envision and shape the future. Each of the chapters in the book links theoretical approaches and global archaeological case studies to a specific contemporary issue. It examines such issue
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Building an archaeology for today and tomorrow: an introduction; Chapter 2 Archaeology and migration: more-than-human movements; Chapter 3 Archaeologies and capitalism: flows and desires; Chapter 4 Leaders of the past, leaders in the future: rethinking power; Chapter 5 Violence across the human/non-human divide: the virtual and the actual; Chapter 6 All the world’s a type: rethinking difference and taxonomy; Chapter 7 How we know the past: truth as relational and emergent; Chapter 8 The past as multiple: positive difference, ontological difference; Chapter 9 Archaeology and the Anthropocene: futurity and affect; Chapter 10 Building an archaeology for today and tomorrow: a conclusion.
