Overview
- Offers a distinctly current archaeological approach to the study of motion
- Draws case studies from across the globe, on a geographically comprehensive scale
- Situates its contributions within a contemporary theoretical framework that challenges traditional object/person dichotomies.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology (CGHA)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Objects in Motion
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Front Matter
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People in Motion
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Front Matter
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Movement Through Spaces
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Front Matter
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MOVEMENT THROUGH SPACES
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Commentary
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Keywords
About this book
This collection of essays in Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement draws inspiration from current archaeological interest in the movement of individuals, things, and ideas in the recent past. Movement is fundamentally concerned with the relationship(s) among time, object, person, and space. The volume argues that understanding movement in the past requires a shift away from traditional, fieldwork-based archaeological ontologies towards fluid, trajectory-based studies. Archaeology, by its very nature, locates objects frozen in space (literally in their three-dimensional matrices) at sites that are often stripped of people. An archaeology of movement must break away from this stasis and cut new pathways that trace the boundary-crossing contextuality inherent in object/person mobility.
Essays in this volume build on these new approaches, confronting issues of movement from a variety of perspectives. They are divided into four sections, based on how the act of moving is framed. The groups into which these chapters are placed are not meant to be unyielding or definitive. The first section, "Objects in Motion," includes case studies that follow the paths of material culture and its interactions with groups of people. The second section of this volume, "People in Motion," features chapters that explore the shifting material traces of human mobility. Chapters in the third section of this book, "Movement through Spaces," illustrate the effects that particular spaces have on the people and objects who pass through them. Finally, there is an afterward that cohesively addresses the issue of studying movement in the recent past. At the heart of Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement is a concern with the hybridity of people and things, affordances of objects and spaces, contemporary heritage issues, and the effects of movement onarchaeological subjects in the recent and contemporary past.
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“The volume covers a wide range of topics, temporalities and geographical extents, from Austrian fifteenth century pocket sundials to the modern ruins of the AIR studios on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. … This volume is also a useful addition to the corpora of movement studies in archaeology in that it extends the reach of this research to the recent past. … it is a well-produced volume with a good number of quality illustrations. It will serve the interests of historical archaeologists well … .” (Alice J. Rogers, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Vol. 28 (2), 2013)Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archaeologies of Mobility and Movement
Editors: Mary C. Beaudry, Travis G. Parno
Series Title: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6211-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-6210-1Published: 06 February 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9483-7Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-6211-8Published: 06 February 2013
Series ISSN: 1574-0439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology