Hello Sarah and All!
Keep asking those tough questions.
It seems that there are a few implicit questions
that I would like to make more explicit.
1. Are archaeologist activily enganged in promoting
pop culture views of archaeology?
2. Are archaeological projects dependent on pop
culture views?
and in a wider context,
3. Do our governments make critical decisions based on
pop culture information?
I think the answers to these questions is Yes!
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:00:36 GMT Sarah Cross
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> Dear Cornelius and All,
>
> certainly didn't want to shut down Cornelius' topic, in fact I went to the news
> stories precisely because this is my main engagement with popular culture (sad
> but true). I really appreciate being pointed at more in depth discussions of
> the issue, because I think this is one of the problems for archaeology in its
> image in popular culture. Discovery, news, snippets - the condensation of all
> subtley and debate into a few sentences. Which is probably a problem for this
> list as well - completely ignorant people (like myself) ask a question to which
> the rest of the group can only legitmately answer - read the literature! (fair
> enough) This high-speed problem is certainly what gets levelled at programs
> like Time Team here in the UK, are there contrasting images in popular culture
> which hit on the more cautious side of our work?
>
> Sarah
>
>
> >Hi all again
> >
> >before India's truthful history takes over, let me say to Ehren that,
> >yes, I know Miles Russell's book and like it a lot -- thanks for
> >recommending it anyway and now everybody may feel (rightly!) that they
> >have to read it!
> >
> >And to Sarah: defining pop culture is indeed difficult. What I mean is
> >the image of archaeology those people get who don't make any particular
> >effort to find out but just live their lives and take in what they come
> >across. So, yes, both TV and Agatha are a part of it, as is the way
> >people perceive some major heritage sites like Stonehenge. I guess that
> >is what you suspected anyway. I am not too sure if I want to get much
> >further into these kind of definitional subtleties -- after all, much of
> >popular culture itself is ill defined and without clear boundaries, and
> >it may well be entirely inappropriate to impose any rigid scheme on my
> >subject matter. So that is what I am interested in!
> >
> >Cornelius
> >
> >
> >
> >Cornelius Holtorf
> >Riksantikvarieämbetet, Stockholm
> >http://members.chello.se/cornelius
> >
> >>>> [log in to unmask] 03-03-06 12:41 >>>
> >Dear Cornelius,
> >
> >how are you defining popular culture? Does this mean representations
> >that are
> >not controlled by archaeologists, or simply representations that have a
> >mass
> >audience? Does Time team count? Does Agatha Christie? Is it something
> >you see
> >when you aren't lookijgn for archaeology (so as to discount heritage
> >presentation
> >which is meant to be popular culture? Not trying to be awkard (honest)
> >just
> >want to bend my mind around the things you are interested in.
> >
> >thanks
> >Sarah
> >ps - I found your site a bit slow to load, any chance you could
> >resample the
> >images a bit more? S
> >
> >
>
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