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Archaeology's visual culture digging and desire /

"Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past, acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere aro...

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Main Author: Balm, Roger, 1947-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Physical Description: xii, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series: Routledge studies in archaeology ; 19.
Subjects:
Archaeology -- Philosophy -- Case studies.
Archaeology -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies.
Archaeologists -- Psychology -- Case studies.
Visual perception -- Case studies.
Visual communication -- Case studies.
Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Case studies.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Case studies.
Archaeological museums and collections -- Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Insistent visuality
  • Scopic privilege and appropriation
  • Stratigraphy
  • Imagination and the ruin
  • Aerial archaeology and its haunting
  • Remote sensing and rocket visions
  • Wither the object?

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