Memory work
Subtitle: archaeologies of material practices
By: edited by Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker.
Contributors: Mills, Barbara J., 1955-; Walker, William H., 1964-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: School for Advanced Research advanced seminar series
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Santa Fe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781930618886
Subjects: Social archaeology; Archaeology and history; Memory -- Social aspects -- History; Material culture -- History; Landscape -- Social aspects -- History; Historic buildings; Historic sites; Excavations (Archaeology); Civilization, Ancient
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: memory, materiality, and depositional practice / Barbara J. Mills and William H. Walker; title: Practice in and as deposition / Rosemary A. Joyce; title: Deposition and material agency in the early Neolithic of Southern Britain / Joshua Pollard; title: Founders' cults and the archaeology of Wa-kan-da / Timothy R. Pauketat; title: Remembering while forgetting: depositional practices and social memory at Chaco / Barbara J. Mills; title: History in practice: ritual deposition at La Venta Complex A / Susan D. Gillespie; title: Practice and nonhuman social actors: the afterlife histories of witches and dogs in the American Southwest / William H. Walker; title: Dogs, pythons, pots, and beads: the dynamics of shrines and sacrificial practices in Banda, Ghana, 1400-1900 CE / Ann B. Stahl; title: Memorializing place among classic Maya commoners / Lisa J. Lucero; title: The materiality of ancestors: Chullpas and social memory in the late prehispanic history of the South Andes / Axel E. Nielsen; title: Memory work and material practices / Lynn Meskell.