Dear List
I just received information on this book via another list - but it may well be of interest here:
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> Elin Andreassen, Hein B. Bjerck and Bjørnar Olsen: Persistent memories.
> Pyramiden - a Soviet mining town in the High Arctic Trondheim, Tapir
> Academic Press (2010)
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> In 1998 the Russian Arctic Coal Company decided to end its more than 50
> years of continuous activity in Pyramiden in the High Arctic archipelago
> of Norwegian Svalbard. A remarkably abrupt abandonment left behind a
> mining town devoid of humans but still filled with all stuff constituting
> a modern industrial settlement. Today the well-equipped Pyramiden survives
> as a conspicuous Soviet-era ghost town in pristine Arctic nature. Based on
> fieldwork conducted in 2006, this book explores what things left behind
> can tell us about how people lived and coped in this marginal town. It is
> also concerned with Pyramiden´s post-human biography and the way the site
> provokes more general reflections on things, heritage and memory.
> Challenging the traditional scholarly hierarchy of text over images, this
> book stands out by using art photography as a means to address these
> issues and to mediate the contemporary archaeology of Pyramiden.
>
> Price : NOK400 - http://butikk.tapirforlag.no/en/node/1530
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> And if you are not aware, a related website: www.ruinmemories.org
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>
Tim
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