Unmaking waste: new histories of old things
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Beteilige Person: Newman, Sarah (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chicago ; London <<The>> University of Chicago Press 2023
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Abstract:"In Unmaking Waste, Sarah Newman asks what happens when there are disagreements about what constitutes waste and what one should do with it, both at singular moments in time (for example, when ideas about waste collide in emerging colonial contexts) and across time (such as between those who left things behind in the past and the archaeologists who recover them). Newman examines ancient Mesoamerican understandings of waste, Euro-American perceptions of waste in New Spain, and early modern European ideals of civility and Christian understandings of good and bad, expressed metaphorically through cleanliness and filth. These differing perceptions, Newman argues, demands that we rethink centuries of assumptions imposed on other places, times, and peoples: so long as "waste" remains a category misunderstood to be common-sensical and stable, archaeological methods will prove unequal to their task. Newman instead proposes "anamorphic archaeology," an approach that emphasizes the possibility that archaeological objects have multiple physical and conceptual lives"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite [235]-274
Umfang:x, 282 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, 24 ungezählte Bildseiten 23 cm
ISBN:9780226826370
9780226826394