Research Catalog

Title

Re-presenting the past : archaeology through text and image / edited by Sheila Bonde and Stephen Houston.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, [2013]

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Additional Authors

• Bonde, Sheila
• Houston, Stephen D.

Description

xiv, 215 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Joukowsky Institute publication ; 2

Uniform Title

Joukowsky Institute publication ; 2.

Alternative Title

Representing the past

Subject

• Archaeology and history > Case studies
• Semiotics and archaeology > Case studies
• Archaeology and art > Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Re-presenting archaeology / Sheila Bonde and Stephen Houston -- Imaging British history : patriotism, professional arts practice, and the quest for precision / Sam Smiles -- Re-presenting the monastery : from Ordo to Google Earth / Sheila Bonde and Clark Maines -- Ping-pong, polygons, virgins : graphic representations of the ancient Maya / Stephen Houston -- Visual time machines : nineteenth-century photographs and museum re-presentations in Maya archaeology / Barbara W. Fash -- Of imaging and imagining : landscape reconstruction at Piedras Negras / Cassandra L. Mesick -- A political economy of visual media in archaeology / Michael Shanks and Timothy Webmoor -- Representing the medieval festivals of Jaén through text, enactment and image / Thomas Devaney -- The world on a flat surface : maps from the archaeology of Greece and beyond / Christopher L. Witmore -- To be or not to be in past spaces : thoughts on Roman immersive reconstructions / Diane Favro.

ISBN

• 1782972315
• 9781782972310

LCCN

• 2013015071
• 99955780585

OCLC

• 842350632
• ocn842350632
• SCSB-5715426

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries