Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
European Journal of Archaeology volume 10.1 has just appeared online. A new feature in this issue is a special reviews section, entitled 'Archaeological Engagements: New Media and Beyond'. The seven contributions that make up this section all explore the engagement of archaeology in new media and a number of contemporary ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
The following books have arrived on the Book Review Editor’s desk but will, for one reason or another, not be reviewed in the European Journal of Archaeology.
Fairclough, Graham, Harrison, Rodney, Jameson, John H., Schofield, John (2007) The Heritage Reader. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-37286-2. Pbk. 580 pp. 11 ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
The following books have been sent to the European Journal of Archaeology but will, for one reason or another, not be reviewed in the journal.
Andrew Lear and Eva Cantarella (2008) Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty. Boys were their Gods. London and New York: Routledge. Hdb., 262 pp, many figures. ISBN ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
We are pleased to announce that the first meeting of the newly formed Histories of Archaeology Research Network (HARN), convened by Pamela Jane Smith, was held on 5 June 2008 at the Society of Antiquaries of London.
The aim of this new inter-university collective is 'to begin untangling the histories and ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Pam Smith's oral history seminars in Cambridge bringing together a number of well known archaeologists discussing the past are a great source of knowledge about archaeology's (intellectual) history!
22nd October 2007
Meg Conkey
Henrietta Moore
Ruth Tringham
Alison Wylie
October 2006
Colin Renfrew
Mike Schiffer
Ezra Zubrow
Graeme Barker (chair)
The videos ...
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
A call for papers for a session on 'Archaeologies of Destruction', to be held at the upcoming TAG (Theoretical Archaeology Group) in Southampton, 15-17 December 2008:
Archaeologies of destruction
Ben Croxford (btcroxford@yahoo.co.uk) and Troels Myrup Kristensen (University of Aarhus; klatmk@hum.au.dk)
It is often the norm that material studied archaeologically is incomplete or ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
The full programme for the 14TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS' ASSOCIATION on MALTA 16-21 September 2008 has now been published on the conference webpage:
* Conference webpage
* Full programme (WORD file), with links to session and paper abstracts (PDF files)
It looks great!
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
A German-language series by and for women in archaeological and gender studies. The series is edited by FemArcEdition, a subsidiary of the Network of Women in Archaeology. Books can be ordered via its website or - from Volume 4 onwards only - via the website of the publisher Waxmann-Verlag.
The papers ...
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Workshop
Archaeological Ethnographies: Charting a Field, Devising Methodologies.
Poros, Greece, 6-8 June 2008
Organised by Yannis Hamilakis and Aris Anagnostopoulos (University of Southampton).
Ressources available:
Workshop programme
Workshop homepage
Project homepage
Archaeologists, Participant Observers and Agent Provocateurs?
Regarding my adoption of the pose of participant observer, I must at the outset provide my motives for delving into ...
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