Incomplete archaeologies : : assembling knowledge in the past and present / / edited by Emily Miller Bonney, Kathryn J. Franklin and James A. Johnson.

"Incomplete Archaeologies takes a familiar archaeological concept--assemblages--and reconsiders such groupings, collections and sets of things from the perspective of the work required to assemble them. The discussions presented here engage with the practices of collection, construction, perfor...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Oxbow Books,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (169 pages) :; illustrations, maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Towards incomplete archaeologies? / Kathryn J. Franklin, James A. Johnson and Emily Miller Bonney
  • Why the Mesolithic needs assemblages / Hannah Cobb
  • Reassembling early Bronze Age tombs on Crete / Emily Miller Bonney
  • The life assemblage : taphonomy as history and the politics of pastoral activity / Hannah Chazin
  • Assembling identities-in-death : miniaturizing identity and the remarkable in Iron Age mortuary practices of West-Central Europe / James A. Johnson
  • Assembling animals : actual, figural, and imagined / Adrienne C. Frie
  • The tale of a mud brick : lessons from Tuzusai and de-assembling an Iron Age site on the Talgar alluvial fan in southeastern Kazakhstan / Claudia Chang and Rebecca Beardmore
  • Assembling the ironsmith / Kevin Garstki
  • Reassembling the king : transforming the tomb of Gustav Vasa, 1560-2014 / Joseph Gonzalez
  • Assembling subjects : world building and cosmopolitics in late medieval Armenia / Kathryn J. Franklin.