Author : Ian Alden Russell
Release : 2010-10-29
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 759/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Images, Representations and Heritage by : Ian Alden Russell
Download or read book Images, Representations and Heritage written by Ian Alden Russell. This book was released on 2010-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins a discourse on the implications of performing archaeology in a world dominated by modern trends of mass production, mass replication and representation of cultural forms, and mass consumption of images of the past. The contributors explore the extent to which contemporary consumption of mass-produced replicas, simulations, images and experiences of the past cause a crisis of representation of the past. Eschewing romantic beliefs, it discusses what archaeology can do.