What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.
What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.
Kisha Supernant is Métis and an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta. She is the Director of the Exploring Métis Identity Through Archaeology (EMITA) Project and has published widely in national and international journals, including PNAS, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, and she is co-editing a forthcoming book entitled Heart-Centred and Emotional Archaeologies. An award-winning researcher, teacher, and writer, Dr. Supernant is actively involved in research on cultural identities, landscapes, collaborative Indigenous archaeology, Métis archaeology, and heart-centered archaeological practice.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Sarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, and Kisha Supernant Part I: Imagining Timescapes: Invoking Haunting, Memory, and Nostalgia Chapter 1. Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating across Timescapes and between Worldviews April M. Beisaw Chapter 2. Material Memories: Interpreting Souvenirs and Heirlooms in the Archaeological Record Erica Begun Chapter 3. Journeys through Space and Time: Materiality, Social Memory, and Community at the City of David Heather Van Wormer Part II: Confronting Lingering Specters Chapter 4. Recognizing Ghosts and Haunting in the Rural Midwest: Finding Community, Identity, and Wisdom in the Past P. M. W. Lawton Chapter 5. The Unwilling Student and the Ghost of Physical Anthropology: Public Perceptions of the Ethics of Physical Anthropology Nicole M. Burt Chapter 6. From Haunted to Haunting: Métis Ghosts in the Past and Present Kisha Supernant Part III: Identifying Ghosts within the Capitalist Landscapes of Late Modernity Chapter 7. Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow: Haunting, Trauma, and the Cruelty of the Agrarian Dream Lilian Brislen Chapter 8. Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story A. E. Garrison Chapter 9. Traumascapes: Progress and the Erasure of the Past Sarah Surface-Evans Chapter 10. Brickwork, Capitalism, Collective Memory, and the Commons Brigitte H. Bechtold Epilogue: Ghosts, Haunting, and Refusals to Erasure Kisha Supernant, April M. Beisaw, A. E. Garrison, and Sarah Surface-Evans Index
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Sarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, and Kisha Supernant Part I: Imagining Timescapes: Invoking Haunting, Memory, and Nostalgia Chapter 1. Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating across Timescapes and between Worldviews April M. Beisaw Chapter 2. Material Memories: Interpreting Souvenirs and Heirlooms in the Archaeological Record Erica Begun Chapter 3. Journeys through Space and Time: Materiality, Social Memory, and Community at the City of David Heather Van Wormer Part II: Confronting Lingering Specters Chapter 4. Recognizing Ghosts and Haunting in the Rural Midwest: Finding Community, Identity, and Wisdom in the Past P. M. W. Lawton Chapter 5. The Unwilling Student and the Ghost of Physical Anthropology: Public Perceptions of the Ethics of Physical Anthropology Nicole M. Burt Chapter 6. From Haunted to Haunting: Métis Ghosts in the Past and Present Kisha Supernant Part III: Identifying Ghosts within the Capitalist Landscapes of Late Modernity Chapter 7. Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow: Haunting, Trauma, and the Cruelty of the Agrarian Dream Lilian Brislen Chapter 8. Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story A. E. Garrison Chapter 9. Traumascapes: Progress and the Erasure of the Past Sarah Surface-Evans Chapter 10. Brickwork, Capitalism, Collective Memory, and the Commons Brigitte H. Bechtold Epilogue: Ghosts, Haunting, and Refusals to Erasure Kisha Supernant, April M. Beisaw, A. E. Garrison, and Sarah Surface-Evans Index
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