TY  - BOOK
AU  - Balm,Roger
TI  - Archaeology's visual culture: digging and desire 
T2  - Routledge studies in archaeology
SN  - 9781138941151 (hardback : alkaline paper)
AV  - CC72 .B35 2016
U1  - 930.1 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Archaeologists
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Visual perception
KW  - Visual communication
KW  - Antiquities
KW  - Collection and preservation
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Archaeological museums and collections
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Insistent visuality -- Scopic privilege and appropriation -- Stratigraphy -- Imagination and the ruin -- Aerial archaeology and its haunting -- Remote sensing and rocket visions -- Wither the object?
N2  - 'Archaeology's Visual Culture explores archaeology through the lens of visual culture theory. The insistent visuality of archaeology is a key stimulus for the imaginative and creative interpretation of our encounters with the past, acknowledging the multiplicity of meanings that cohere around artifacts, archaeological sites and museum displays. Archaeology's Visual Culture investigates the nature of this projection, revealing an embedded subjectivity in the imagery of archaeology. Using a wide range of case studies the book highlights the way archaeologists view objects and the consequences that ensue from ways of seeing'--Provided by publisher
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