Social Lives of Places and Things

27 February 2006

Anth 3520

 

 


 

Major term assignment handed out a couple of weeks ago, with additional details last week. See here.

Reading for Today was: Archaeology of the Contemporary Past

Buchli and Lucas:  The absent present pp 1-18

Buchli and Lucas: Models of production and consumption pp 21-25

Majewski and Schiffer: Beyond consumption: Toward an archaeology of consumerism. pp 26-50

 


Plan for Class

Discussion: What's that book all about?

Modern Landscapes


 

 

 

 

 

 

The National Mall in Washington DC

 

- linear procession from Capitol to Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial

 



Capitol White House Library of Congress Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Monument Lincoln Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial Smithsonian Institution C&O Canal National Historic Park Arlington Bethesda Washington, DC  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Capitol

 

 

Washington Memorial in the distance

 

 

 

 

Lincoln Memorial

 

 

 

n.b. echoes:

Washington Capitol and Utah Capitol

Texas Capitol

 

Lincoln Memorial and Parthenon

 

 

 

 

 

 


Green Bank Observatory

 

http://www.gb.nrao.edu/