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Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices

Memory Work: Archaeologies of Material Practices

Mills, Barbara J.
Walker, William H.

Paperback

Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

Archaeology

ISBN10: 1930618883
ISBN13: 9781930618886
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Published: Jul 1 2008
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Memory making is a social practice that links people and things together across time and space and ultimately has material consequences. The intersection of matter and social practice becomes archaeologically visible through the deposits created during social activities. Memories are made, not just experienced, and their material traces allow us to understand the materiality of these practices. Indeed, materiality is not just material culture repackaged. Instead, it is about the interaction of humans and materials within a set of cultural relationships. In this book the authors focus on a set of case studies that illustrate how social memories were made through repeated, patterned, and engaged social practices. Memory work also refers to the interpretive activities scholars perform when studying social memory. The contributors to this volume share a common goal to map out the different ways in which to study social memories in past societies programmatically and tangibly.

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