Rodney Harrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rodney Harrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rodney |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrison |
| SIGNATURE | HARRISON R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology
This book explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by Europe's colonial expansion over the last 600 years. This new, comparative focus on the archaeology of indigenous and colonised life has emerged from the gap in conceptual frames of reference between the archaeologies of pre-contact indigenous peoples, and the post-contact archaeologies of the global European experience. Case studie…
Heritage
This chapter is both an exploration of the relationship between contemporary archaeology and heritage, and a contemporary archaeology of heritage. This first part of this chapter explores heritage as a manifestation of a late modern experience society in which the past is perceived to be both immanent (contained within) and imminent (impending) in the present. The second explores the role of archaeology in investigating heritage as a contemporary…
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
This book surveys an archaeology “in and of the present.” It investigates the challenges and pitfalls of an archaeology of the contemporary world as well as the methodologies for doing it. It consists of a collection of chapters in which authors from within and outside of archaeology reflect on cross-disciplinary concerns. Contributors discuss topics ranging from scale and time to ruins, memory, authenticity, sectarianism, heritage, modernism, an…
Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself. This handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting an…
The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
In north-western Nevada, USA, the Burning Man festival organizers and participants build and then remove all traces of a city that holds upwards of 50,000 participants (as of 2011). The city is built in August each year, fully occupied for one week, and then removed completely over the course of the following month. Using traditional archaeological methods along with ethnographic approaches and participant observation, the project has explored th…
Difference
This chapter looks to the contribution an archaeology of the contemporary past can make to reframing conceptions of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork experiences from the 1980s in New South Wales, Australia, the author, in retrospect, realizes the extent to which what he had framed, in positivist terms, as prehistoric stone artefacts that comprised a field of affective intensity for his Aboriginal co-worker. The chapter…
Waste
This chapter considers the origins of, and possibilities for, an archaeology of the contemporary world derived from observations of recently discarded waste. It begins with a discussion of the pioneering ‘Garbage Project’ founded by William Rathje (1945–2012) at the University of Arizona, contextualizing its emergence from ‘behavioral archeology’ as well as the distinct milieu of Cold War America, to which it owes it epistemological and material …
The Place of Things in Contemporary History
This essay examines the variety of ways that historians have engaged with material culture in their work over the last few decades. Although textual records from the archive remain privileged sources, the diversity of historiographical approach has led to a range of historiographical practices including a material turn. Two major approaches to objects have dominated. Dubbed ‘object driven’ and ‘object centred’, these variously use objects as evid…
Protest
This chapter explores how the study of material culture brings new perspectives to protest and activism in the contemporary world. Its focus is the peace and environmental protests in Britain during the last thirty years, although the chapter also draws upon examples from other times and places. The chapter is organized into five themes: the use of the body in the performance of protest; the creation of novel networks of humans and things through…
Absence
Archaeological methodologies direct our attention towards the study of present, material things. This is frequently praised as its greatest contribution to social theory. But humans cultivate relationships with absent things as well, and these absent things can be marked and assertive, exerting a powerful influence on society despite their immateriality. How, then, to engage in an archaeological study of absent things? And how might we undertake …
Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles
The chapter deals both with the changing relations boys and men have had and have with 'classic' cars of the 1950s-1960s (notably British sports cars), and with the social relations classic cars aficionados have had and have between them apropos these machines that have survived and are still used, and therefore illustrate what has to be done so that artefacts do not become archaeological items. It raises an anthropological question having to do …
Unpacking the Collection
Monuments to colonialism? Stone arrangements, tourist cairns and turtle magic at Evans Bay, Cape York
This paper reports on an archaeological survey at Evans Bay, Cape York, which recorded a large number of stone arrangements on the rocky headland at Evans Point. We interpret two phases of stone cairn construction; the first associated with the building of stone cairns as part of joint Aboriginal and Islander turtle increase ceremonies, and the second with the partial demolition and rebuilding of these stone cairns by tourists and tour operators.…
Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology
This book explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by Europe's colonial expansion over the last 600 years. This new, comparative focus on the archaeology of indigenous and colonised life has emerged from the gap in conceptual frames of reference between the archaeologies of pre-contact indigenous peoples, and the post-contact archaeologies of the global European experience. Case studie…
Monuments to colonialism? Stone arrangements, tourist cairns and turtle magic at Evans Bay, Cape York
This paper reports on an archaeological survey at Evans Bay, Cape York, which recorded a large number of stone arrangements on the rocky headland at Evans Point. We interpret two phases of stone cairn construction; the first associated with the building of stone cairns as part of joint Aboriginal and Islander turtle increase ceremonies, and the second with the partial demolition and rebuilding of these stone cairns by tourists and tour operators.…
Waste
This chapter considers the origins of, and possibilities for, an archaeology of the contemporary world derived from observations of recently discarded waste. It begins with a discussion of the pioneering ‘Garbage Project’ founded by William Rathje (1945–2012) at the University of Arizona, contextualizing its emergence from ‘behavioral archeology’ as well as the distinct milieu of Cold War America, to which it owes it epistemological and material …
The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
In north-western Nevada, USA, the Burning Man festival organizers and participants build and then remove all traces of a city that holds upwards of 50,000 participants (as of 2011). The city is built in August each year, fully occupied for one week, and then removed completely over the course of the following month. Using traditional archaeological methods along with ethnographic approaches and participant observation, the project has explored th…
Difference
This chapter looks to the contribution an archaeology of the contemporary past can make to reframing conceptions of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork experiences from the 1980s in New South Wales, Australia, the author, in retrospect, realizes the extent to which what he had framed, in positivist terms, as prehistoric stone artefacts that comprised a field of affective intensity for his Aboriginal co-worker. The chapter…
Absence
Archaeological methodologies direct our attention towards the study of present, material things. This is frequently praised as its greatest contribution to social theory. But humans cultivate relationships with absent things as well, and these absent things can be marked and assertive, exerting a powerful influence on society despite their immateriality. How, then, to engage in an archaeological study of absent things? And how might we undertake …
The Place of Things in Contemporary History
This essay examines the variety of ways that historians have engaged with material culture in their work over the last few decades. Although textual records from the archive remain privileged sources, the diversity of historiographical approach has led to a range of historiographical practices including a material turn. Two major approaches to objects have dominated. Dubbed ‘object driven’ and ‘object centred’, these variously use objects as evid…
Protest
This chapter explores how the study of material culture brings new perspectives to protest and activism in the contemporary world. Its focus is the peace and environmental protests in Britain during the last thirty years, although the chapter also draws upon examples from other times and places. The chapter is organized into five themes: the use of the body in the performance of protest; the creation of novel networks of humans and things through…
Monuments to colonialism? Stone arrangements, tourist cairns and turtle magic at Evans Bay, Cape York
This paper reports on an archaeological survey at Evans Bay, Cape York, which recorded a large number of stone arrangements on the rocky headland at Evans Point. We interpret two phases of stone cairn construction; the first associated with the building of stone cairns as part of joint Aboriginal and Islander turtle increase ceremonies, and the second with the partial demolition and rebuilding of these stone cairns by tourists and tour operators.…
Unpacking the Collection
Heritage
This chapter is both an exploration of the relationship between contemporary archaeology and heritage, and a contemporary archaeology of heritage. This first part of this chapter explores heritage as a manifestation of a late modern experience society in which the past is perceived to be both immanent (contained within) and imminent (impending) in the present. The second explores the role of archaeology in investigating heritage as a contemporary…
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
This book surveys an archaeology “in and of the present.” It investigates the challenges and pitfalls of an archaeology of the contemporary world as well as the methodologies for doing it. It consists of a collection of chapters in which authors from within and outside of archaeology reflect on cross-disciplinary concerns. Contributors discuss topics ranging from scale and time to ruins, memory, authenticity, sectarianism, heritage, modernism, an…
Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself. This handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting an…
The Burning Man Festival and the Archaeology of Ephemeral and Temporary Gatherings
In north-western Nevada, USA, the Burning Man festival organizers and participants build and then remove all traces of a city that holds upwards of 50,000 participants (as of 2011). The city is built in August each year, fully occupied for one week, and then removed completely over the course of the following month. Using traditional archaeological methods along with ethnographic approaches and participant observation, the project has explored th…
Difference
This chapter looks to the contribution an archaeology of the contemporary past can make to reframing conceptions of Indigenous authenticity. Drawing on archaeological fieldwork experiences from the 1980s in New South Wales, Australia, the author, in retrospect, realizes the extent to which what he had framed, in positivist terms, as prehistoric stone artefacts that comprised a field of affective intensity for his Aboriginal co-worker. The chapter…
Waste
This chapter considers the origins of, and possibilities for, an archaeology of the contemporary world derived from observations of recently discarded waste. It begins with a discussion of the pioneering ‘Garbage Project’ founded by William Rathje (1945–2012) at the University of Arizona, contextualizing its emergence from ‘behavioral archeology’ as well as the distinct milieu of Cold War America, to which it owes it epistemological and material …
The Place of Things in Contemporary History
This essay examines the variety of ways that historians have engaged with material culture in their work over the last few decades. Although textual records from the archive remain privileged sources, the diversity of historiographical approach has led to a range of historiographical practices including a material turn. Two major approaches to objects have dominated. Dubbed ‘object driven’ and ‘object centred’, these variously use objects as evid…
Protest
This chapter explores how the study of material culture brings new perspectives to protest and activism in the contemporary world. Its focus is the peace and environmental protests in Britain during the last thirty years, although the chapter also draws upon examples from other times and places. The chapter is organized into five themes: the use of the body in the performance of protest; the creation of novel networks of humans and things through…
Absence
Archaeological methodologies direct our attention towards the study of present, material things. This is frequently praised as its greatest contribution to social theory. But humans cultivate relationships with absent things as well, and these absent things can be marked and assertive, exerting a powerful influence on society despite their immateriality. How, then, to engage in an archaeological study of absent things? And how might we undertake …
Autoanthropology, Modernity, and Automobiles
The chapter deals both with the changing relations boys and men have had and have with 'classic' cars of the 1950s-1960s (notably British sports cars), and with the social relations classic cars aficionados have had and have between them apropos these machines that have survived and are still used, and therefore illustrate what has to be done so that artefacts do not become archaeological items. It raises an anthropological question having to do …
Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology
This book explores the archaeologies of daily living left by the indigenous and other displaced peoples impacted by Europe's colonial expansion over the last 600 years. This new, comparative focus on the archaeology of indigenous and colonised life has emerged from the gap in conceptual frames of reference between the archaeologies of pre-contact indigenous peoples, and the post-contact archaeologies of the global European experience. Case studie…
History (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works)