Balm Archaeology’s Visual Culture

Digging and Desire
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-37743-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 298 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

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, acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and museum displays. Archaeology’s Visual Culture investigates the nature of this projection, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology. Using a wide range of case studies, the book highlights the way archaeologists view objects and the consequences that ensue from these ways of seeing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Balm, Roger

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Cuzco Bones

3. Stratigraphy

Diagrammatic Picturing
Anatomy
Time, Embodiment and the Subsurface

Augustus Pitt Rivers and “Cranborne”
Culture and the Cross-section

Mortimer Wheeler and the Aesthetics of Excavation
Exhumation

Harris Matrix and the Rope of Time
Surface and Assemblage

4. Imagination and the Ruin

Tatiana’s Chair
Paper Ruins
Traveling Glyphs
Stela 14

Edgewalking
Bodega at Palenque
Thought Sketches

5. Aerial Archaeology and its Haunting

The Aerial Domain
Flight Militant
Flight Archaeological

Osbert Crawford and Ghosts of Old England
Stonehenge Avenue
Celtic Fields
Evocation
Advocacy

Ghosts of Old Yucatán
The Lindbergh-Carnegie Survey
The University of Pennsylvania Survey

6. Remote Sensing and Rocket Visions

Visual Continuities
Documentary Prosthetics

Encounters beyond Visible Light
“Invisible Rays”
Infrared Arizona

Desert Traces
Nimbus
“Radar Rivers”
Seeking Ubar
Seeking Tanis


7 Wither the Object?

The Weightless Past
The Weightless of Scopic Opportunity
The Weightlessness of Cyber-archaeology

Archaeological Imagination
Art Nexus
Collaborations
Confrontations

The Wistfulness of the Archaeological Eye

Über Autor(innen)

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.