Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory: Papers from the CHAT 2003 and CHAT 2004
Conferences (edited by Laura McAtackney, Matt Palus and Angela Piccini)
We are delighted to announce the publication "Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in
Theory' - a collection that documents some of the diversity, and captures much of the energy, of
the contributions to the first two CHAT meetings in 2003 and 2004.
The book is the fourth contribution to the series 'Studies in Contemporary and Historical
Archaeology'. We are continuing to develop the series with Archaeopress, through both authored
and edited volumes, and welcome enquiries and proposals for books that deal with the
archaeology of the modern period.
Dan Hicks and Josh Pollard (Series Editors)
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Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Papers from the 2003 and 2004 CHAT
Conferences
edited by Laura McAtackney, Matthew Palus and Angela Piccini.
Oxford: Archaeopress (BAR S1677 2007: Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology 4)
ISBN 9781407301150. £30.00. viii+118 pages; illustrated throughout with maps, plans, drawings
and photographs.
This volume assembles some of the contributions to the first two annual meetings of the
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (‘CHAT’) conferences, held at Bristol
University in November 2003 and Leicester University in November 2004. Bringing together a wide
range of archaeological practitioners from higher education and from professional archaeology,
these contributions explore the potential of archaeological studies of the recent and contemporary
past from a range of perspectives.
Contents
1) Preface (Mary C. Beaudry);
2) Introduction (Laura McAtackney and Matthew Palus);
3) Significance, value and property in the public face of archaeology (Matthew Palus and
Christopher Matthews);
4) Epidemic of medicine: an archaeological dose of popular culture (Krysta Ryzewski);
5) Slavers, Swashbucklers, and salvors: the ethics of public presentation in nautical archaeology
(Brian W Gohacki);
6) The Paradox of Progress: land survey and the making of agrarian society in colonial British
Columbia (Jeff Oliver);
7) Constructing capitalism: speculation and social relations in the building industry, 1700-1850
(Martin Locock);
8) Some Geneaologies of Castles in Ireland (Andrew Tierney);
9) Cultures of antiquity and the practice of archaeology in Britain and Ireland (c.1700-1850): a
postcolonial perspective (David Harvey);
10) Encounters between actors, audience and archaeologists at the Rose Theatre, 1587-1989
(Julian Bowsher);
11) Not surfing but drowning: historic environment data on the internet: addressing intellectual
barriers to access (Martin Newman);
12) Concrete Islands (Paul Graves-Brown);
13) The contemporary and future landscape: Change and Creation in the later twentieth century
(Graham Fairclough);
14) Titbits revisted: towards a respectable archaeology of Strait Street, Valletta, Malta (John
Schofield and Emily Morrissey);
15) Cultural Identity and perceptions of slavery in the clove plantations of Zanzibar (Sarah
Croucher);
16) From rhetoric to research: the Bloody Meadows project as a pacifist response to war (John and
Patricia Carman);
17) Afterword: Towards an archaeology of the contemporary past (Victor Buchli).
The volume can be ordered from:
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Oxford, UK.
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