From Laetoli to Luna...
Social Lives of Places and Things
13 Mar 2006 Anth 3520
Major term assignment: proposal/biblio due last week. See here. Handing proposals back in class today. If you miss class, i.e. you are just reading these notes online... I'll leave the marked proposals in a folder outside my office (Vari 2029) for you to pick up.
Reading:
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Mar 13 |
Archaeology of the Contemporary Past - Buchli and Lucas: Bodies of evidence pp 121-125 - Legendre: Archaeology of World War 2: the Lancaster bomber of Fleville pp 126-137 - Buchli and Lucas: The archaeology of alienation: a late twentieth-century British council house pp 158-168
And: The Cultural Heritage of Space: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/oleary/index.html
And: From Bear Pit to Zoo http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba68/feat2.shtml
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Mar 20 |
No class — work on your papers and posters No reading – catch up on any reading you’ve missed
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Mar 27 |
Poster party and hand in papers No reading
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Plan for Class
Discuss!
What do you think about "archaeologizing" a modern abandoned home?
Why study the material culture and/or sites of war?
Why are people so interested
in forensics, e.g. CSI?
What do zoos say about us and our relationship with animals?
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba68/feat2.shtml
Space... now a cultural landscape?
The Moon: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/oleary/index.html
Google Mars www.google.com/mars/
A Challenge: What should be done about these exploration sites? Should they be considered cultural heritage and preserved for the future? If so, how? What should be the rules?