The Oxford handbook of the archaeology of the contemporary world / edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison, Angela Piccini.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Angela Piccini -- pt. I CROSS-DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES -- 2.The Relationship between Ethnoarchaeology and Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past: A Historical Investigation / Kathryn Fewster -- 3.Forensic Archaeology / Lucy Sibun -- 4.Anthropological Approaches to Contemporary Material Worlds / Penny Harvey -- 5.The Place of Things in Contemporary History / Tim Cole -- 6.Canonical Affordances: The Psychology of Everyday Things / Ann Richards -- 7.To the Things Themselves Again: Observations on What Things are and Why They Matter / James Gordon Finlayson -- 8.STS, Symmetry, Archaeology / Timothy Webmoor -- 9.Actor-Network-Theory Approaches to the Archaeology of Contemporary Architecture / Albena Yaneva -- 10.Global Media and Archaeologies of Network Technologies / Sean Cubitt -- 11.Performance and the Stratigraphy of Place: Everything You Need to Build a Town is Here / Cathy Turner -- pt. II RECURRENT THEMES --

Contents note continued: 12.Time / Laurent Olivier -- 13.Absence / Kaet Heupel -- 14.Ruins / Gavin Lucas -- 15.Memory / Bj{u2BA1}r Olsen -- 16.Authenticity / Paul Graves-Brown -- 17.Sectarianism / Laura McAtackney -- 18.Afterlives / Michael Brian Schiffer -- 19.Waste / Joshua Reno -- 20.Heritage / Rodney Harrison -- 21.Difference / Denis Byrne -- 22.Modernism / Alfredo GonzAlez-Ruibal -- 23.Protest / Robert Johnston -- 24.Homelessness / Larry J. Zimmerman -- 25.Conflict / Gabriel Moshenska -- 26.Disaster / Richard A. Gould -- 27.Scale / Matt Edgeworth -- pt. III MOBILITIES, SPACE, PLACE -- 28.Aluminology: An Archaeology of Mobile Modernity / Mimi Sheller -- 29.The Archaeology of Space Exploration / Beth Laura O'leary -- 30.Contemporary Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary Entrapments, Subaltern Epistemologies / Nick Shepherd -- 31.Archaeologies of Automobility / Peter Merriman -- 32.Archaeology of Modern American Death: Grave Goods and Blithe Mementoes / Shannon Lee Dawdy --

Contents note continued: 33.'A Dirtier Reality?' Archaeological Methods and the Urban Project / John Schofield -- 34.Heritage and Modernism in New York / Laurie A. Wilkie -- 35.Checkpoints as Gendered Spaces: An Autoarchaeology of War, Heritage, and the City / Uzma Z. Rizvi -- 36.Race and Prosaic Materiality: the Archaeology of Contemporary Urban Space and the Invisible Colour Line / Paul R. Mullins -- Photo Essay: Institutional Spaces / Peter Metelerkamp -- pt. IV MEDIA AND MUTABILITIES -- 37.Between the Lines: Drawing Archaeology / Helen Wickstead -- 38.Two Riots: the Importance of Civil Unrest in Contemporary Archaeology / James R. Dixon -- 39.The Materiality of Film / Liz Watkins -- 40.The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings / Carolyn L. White -- 41.Olympic City Screens: Media, Matter, and Making Place / Angela Piccini -- 42.Material Animals: An Archaeology of Contemporary Zoo Experiences / Cornelius Holtorf --

Contents note continued: Photo Essay: On Salvage Photography / Caitlin Desilvey -- pt. V THINGS AND CONNECTIVITIES -- 43.Silicon Valley / Christine Finn -- 44.Building Thought into Things / David de Leon -- 45.Archaeologies of the Postindustrial Body / Sefryn Penrose -- 46.The Material Cellphone / Toby Miller -- 47.The Contemporary Material Culture of the Cult of the Infant: Constructing Children as Desiring Subjects / Sarah May -- 48.VHS: A Posthumanist Aesthetics of Recording and Distribution / Jem Noble -- 49.Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles / Pierre Lemonnier.