Archive for the ‘Review column’ Category

Mark Hall: Speculum Fantasia - Middle-Earth and Discworld as Mirrors of Medieval Europe

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

This blog entry is a slightly amended version of the paper given at the EAA Annual Meeting in Zadar, Croatia, September 2007. It was read at the session on Invented Civilisations organised by Cornelius Holtorf and Michael Jasmin. It is presented here to give a flavour of part of ...

Review Column: A short guide to American Archaeology

Monday, September 10th, 2007

by Michael Dietler, University of Chicago This article offers a brief analysis of the institutional landscape of American archaeology, and it is intended particularly to help European scholars comprehend and navigate this complex and sometimes bewildering domain.(1) It is a slightly revised version of the first half of an article ...

Review column: John Schofield on archaeology, art and the contemporary past

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

The review column is a new feature here on the EJA blog. We hope the columns will be of interest to our readers and, hopefully, create some debate. Our first guest author is John Schofield with an essay on archaeology, art and the contemporary past. Art and archaeological practice are ...