Description
In Experiencing the Past Michael Shanks presents an animated exploration of the character of archaeology and reclaims the sentiment and feeling which are so often lost in purely academic approaches.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Prelude: The Visit; Part 1 Archaeological Method; Chapter 1 Trees and Gardens; Part 2 Archaeological Interests; Chapter 2 Desire and Metaphor; Chapter 3 Perfume and Violence; Part 3 The Encounter with the Past; Chapter 4 What is the Archaeological Past?; Chapter 5 Wallington Hall; Chapter 6 Experience and the Past; Chapter 7 Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland; Part 4 Working Archaeology; Chapter 8 The Craft of Archaeology; Chapter 9 An Archaeological Poetics; Chapter 10 Death and the Domestic;
