Roger Balm

Archaeology's Visual Culture

Digging and Desire

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past. Balm investigates the nature of this projection of the visual, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the im

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780367874278
• ISBN-10: 036787427X
• Artikelnr.: 58440722

Autorenporträt

Roger Balm is a geographer with a research interest in the ancient cultural landscapes of Mexico, South America and the Mediterranean. He was a 2010 Fulbright scholar in Cyprus and has also held a fellowship with the American Geographical Society. He is an independent scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Insistent Visuality
A Theoretical Framework
Visual Culture as a Field of Investigation
Images in Science
Agents and Networks
The Context of Modernity
Rupture and Rapture
Visual Stability
Visual Instability
Spaces of Display
Looking Inwards and Seeing Through
2. Scopic Privilege and Appropriation
Circulation of the Archaeological Story
Cesnola and Squier in Print
Set in Stone: Cesnola in Cyprus
Temples, Tombs and Temptations
Family Photographs
Appraisal and Accusation
Metrics and Meaning: Squier in South America
Sizing-up Tiwanaku
Photographing Tiwanaku