Material engagements : studies in honour of Colin Renfrew
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Material engagements : studies in honour of Colin Renfrew
(McDonald Institute monographs)
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge , Oxbow Books [distributor], c2004
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The subject matter of archaeology is the engagement of human beings, now and in the past, with both the natural world and the material world they have created. All aspects of human activity are potentially relevant to archaeological research, and, conversely, the ways in which others, especially artists and anthropologists, have investigated the world are of interest to archaeologists. Archaeological artefacts and sites are also used by groups and nations to establish identity, and for financial gain, both through tourism and trade in antiquities. Colin Renfrew has actively engaged with art, with politics and with the antiquities trade, and has presented his ideas to broad audiences through accessible books and television programmes, as well as championing the cause of archaeology in many public roles. The papers in this volume, which have been written by colleagues and former students on the occasion of his retirement, relate to all of these subject areas, and together give some idea of the complexity of the issues raised by critical engagements with the material world, both past and present.
Table of Contents
- Introduction (Neil Brodie & Catherine Hills)
- For Colin in friendship and admiration (Richard Long)
- A meeting of minds: art and archaeology (Antony Gormley & Colin Renfrew)
- 'Art makes visible': an archaeology of the senses in Minoan elite art (Christine Morris)
- Incavation - Excavation - Exhibition (Cornelius Holtorf)
- Archaeology in rock (Timothy Darvill)
- Flowers: New England digs 2002 (Mark Dion)
- The Asian art affair: US art museum collections of Asian art and archaeology (Neil Brodie & Jenny Doole)
- A Neocycladic harpist? (John Craxton & Peter Warren)
- The Parthenon Marbles as an archaeological issue (Anthony Snodgrass)
- But a passing moment in the long career of a monument: Colin Renfrew and Stonehenge, 1968 (Christopher Chippindale)
- Rejecting reflexivity? Making post-Stalinist archaeology in Albania (Richard Hodges)
- Material and oral records: a shamans' meeting in Pokhara (Christopher Evans).
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