Gebundenes Buch

Undoing Things

How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart

Herausgeber: Lucas, Gavin; Lee Dawdy, Shannon

Beschreibung

Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds.

Autor

Gavin Lucas is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Iceland. He has had an enduring interest in the way archaeologists think and work, reflected in various books such as Critical Approaches to Fieldwork (2001), Understanding the Archaeological Record (2012), Writing the Past (2021), and Archaeological Situations (2022). Alongside this has been a recurrent interest in the concept of time: The Archaeology of Time (2005), Making Time (2020), and with Laurent Olivier, Conversations on Time (2021) while his main focus of fieldwork has been on the archaeology of the last 500 years. Shannon Lee Dawdy is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. Dawdy's fieldwork combines archival, ethnographic, and archaeological methods. Her work has focused on the history of colonialism and capitalism, human-material relations, temporality, and the archaeology of contemporary life. Her books include Building the Devil's Empire: French Colonial New Orleans (2008), Patina: A Profane Archaeology (2016), and American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century (2021).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9781032064178
• ISBN-10: 103206417X
• Artikelnr.: 72211503