Re-presenting the past
Subtitle: archaeology through text and image
By: edited by Sheila Bonde and Stephen Houston
Series: Joukowsky Institute publication -- 2
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford, UK; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781782972310
Subjects: Archaeology and history; Case studies; Semiotics and archaeology; Archaeology and art
Other titles: Representing the past
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: Re-presenting archaeology / Sheila Bonde and Stephen Houston; title: Imaging British history : patriotism, professional arts practice, and the quest for precision / Sam Smiles; title: Re-presenting the monastery : from Ordo to Google Earth / Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines; title: Ping-pong, polygons, virgins : graphic representations of the ancient Maya / Stephen Houston; title: Visual time machines : nineteenth-century photographs and museum re-presentations in Maya archaeology / Barbara W. Fash; title: Of imaging and imagining : landscape reconstruction at Piedras Negras / Cassandra L. Mesick; title: A political economy of visual media in archaeology / Michael Shanks and Timothy Webmoor; title: Representing the medieval festivals of Jaén through text, enactment and image / Thomas Devaney; title: The world on a flat surface : maps from the archaeology of Greece and beyond / Christopher L. Witmore; title: To be or not to be in past spaces : thoughts on Roman immersive reconstructions / Diane Favro.