Archaeology's Place in Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9322902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian Thomas (0000-0002-2907-4586) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-34 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modernism/modernity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1071-6068 • E-ISSN: 1080-6601 |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mod.2004.0028 |
| OpenAlex | W2061163143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 33 |
It is widely acknowledged that the practice of archaeology emerged in the modern period. However, this article makes the more radical claim that modernity represents the ground of the possibility of archaeology. Archaeology is deeply connected with modes of thought, forms of organization, and social practices that are distinctively modern. So ironically, archaeology studies past worlds through an intellectual apparatus that is thoroughly embedded in the present. In this essay, the various strands of archaeologyÕs debt to modernity are investigated, and it is suggested that the discipline can aspire to a ÒcountermodernÓ position by embracing considerations of meaning, ethics, politics, and rhetoric
Aesthetics · Archaeological theory · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Prehistoric archaeology · Rhetoric · Sociology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
Queer Prehistory
Feeling Forward into the Past
O eclipse do olhar e a invisibilidade arqueológica
Cultural Imperialism and Heritage Politics in the Event of Armed Conflict
In Defiance of Discipline
The Freedom of the Seas
Dialogic Archaeology of Multiple Times and Ontological Pluralism
Which White Horse Temple? Some Difficulties in Achieving a Singular Nationalist Archaeological Narrative in R epublican C hina
Liquid Rock
Antiquarianism, archaeology, and aporetic immanence in Beckett’s prose
Hardy’s Wessex, Heritage Culture, and the Archaeology of Rural England
Kafka's Ruins in Popular Culture
An Archaeology of Modernity in Colonial Jamaica
The Governor and the Enslaved
Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s)
Acknowledged authenticity. Or did the origin of rock matter in the Mesolithic
With the past under your feet
Are We Metamodern? The Structure of Today’s Archaeology from the Perspective of Cultural Studies
Negotiation of Inalienability and Meanings at the Classic Maya Center of Aguateca, Guatemala
"Archaeology and the "Savage Slot
On the Social Construction of Hellenism Cold War Narratives of Modernity, Development and Democracy for Greece
Of Clues and Signs
Clockpunk Anthropology and the Ruins of Modernity
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Archaeology and cognitive science
Archaeology and Modernity
The Age of the World Picture
Ancient Mind
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Writing and Difference
Modernity and ambivalence
Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology
Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge
The Order of Things
Nationalism, Politics, and the Practice of Archaeology
Beyond the surface
The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
What Computers Still Can't Do
The End of Modernity
A Hundred Years of Archaeology
Sources of the Self
Theory and Explanation in Archaeology
The Gender of the GiftProblems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia
The Postmodern Condition
Intimate archaeologies
Paradigms, Systematics, and Archaeology
The Scientific Revolution
Cuvier's Position in the History of Biology
Modernity and Ambivalence
Archaeology, anthropology and subsistence
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |