The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory by Olivier, Laurent

The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780759120464)

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Format: Paperback
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The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory by Olivier, Laurent

The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory

$53.00
The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory by Olivier, Laurent

The Dark Abyss of Time: Archaeology and Memory

$53.00
Format: Paperback
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The field of archaeology continues to face a major crisis of interpretation. The traditional view is that the basic business of archaeology is to reconstruct the history of cultures and civilizations through their material productions. Olivier challenges this view with a new approach to archaeological remains based on the works of French theorists such as Foucault, de Certeaux, and Derrida, with insight from Darwin and Freud. His thesis is that archaeology does not study the past itself but rather what materially remains of the past in our present. Olivier also develops an interpretation of material culture based on Aby Warburg's and Walter Benjamin's work in the anthropology of art. With wider implications for history and all social sciences, The Dark Abyss of Time is a major contribution to the theory of time, memory, heritage, and archaeology. This flawless translation makes Olivier's elegantly written work available in English for the first time.

Author: Laurent Olivier
ISBN-10: 0759120463
ISBN-13: 9780759120464
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 03/17/2015
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
By Laurent Olivier
By Laurent Olivier
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Laurent Olivier is curator of the Department of Celtic and Gaulish archaeology at the National Museum of Archaeology in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, outside Paris. He teaches at the ﾉcole du Louvre and the ﾉcole pratique des hautes 騁udes. He is working on a dig on the site of Iron Age salt marshes in Marsal (northeastern France).
Arthur Greenspan is a professor of French at Colby College.

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