Jan 9

Welcome, course outline

None

Jan 16

Introduction: The Social Lives of Places and Things

Dant 1-59: Introduction: the cairn and the mini-strip; Consuming or living with things?; Fetishism and the social value of objects

Jan 23

Material culture

Dant 60-120: Wearing it out: written and material clothing; Playing with things: interacting with a windsurfer; Objects in time: modernity and biography

Jan 30

Material culture

Dant 130-200: Turn it on: objects that mediate; Who’s what? People as objects; Conclusion

Feb 6

Rubbish! The study of garbage in archaeology

Rathje 3-78:  Yes, Wonderful Things; Garbage and History; What We Say, What We Do

Reading Week  Feb 13 - 17

Feb 20

Rubbish! The study of garbage in archaeology

Rathje 81-109, 133-140, 171-212: Into the Unknown; A Garbage Census? The Technological Fix (optional); Closing the Loop

Feb 27

The archaeology of the contemporary past

Buchli book

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

And TBA

Mar 6

The archaeology of the contemporary past

Buchli book:

Buchli and Lucas: Between remembering and forgetting pp 77-79

Hart & Winter: The politics of remembrance in the new South Africa: pp 84-93

Ludlow Collective: Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War 1913-1914: pp 94-107

Wilkie: Black sharecroppers and white frat boys: living communities and the appropriation of archaeological pasts pp 108-118

Paper outline and bibliography due in class

Mar  13

 The archaeology of the contemporary past

Buchli book

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 twentieh-century British council house pp 158-168

And TBA:

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

Mar 20

No class — work on your papers and posters

No reading – catch up on any reading you’ve missed

Mar 27

Poster party and hand in papers

No reading

Paper due in class

Poster Party in class

Apr 3

Last class

Final case studies, and review

Take-home final exam handed out.

The Millennium Clock: http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock/#clockessay , http://www.longnow.org/projects/clock/ , http://www.longnow.org/about/

Berlin Wall: http://www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de/denkmal/denkmale_in_berlin/en/berliner_mauer/mauer_aufbau.shtml   Explore (follow the links on the left of the page: Building and Development, Wall Traces, etc. 

Tunnel Cam: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20060321/pl_usnw/1945_prison_escape_tunnel_found___tunnel_cam__with_live_images_of_tunnel_interior_will_be_on_view_to_public103_xml

Ghost Towns - just explore:  http://www.ghosttownpix.com/  , http://www.ontarioghosttowns.com/   COMPARE: http://www.ghosttownmuseum.com/

Chernobyl Diary: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/cherlinks.html

DeMille's Lost City: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4494713