Images, Representations and Heritage

Images, Representations and Heritage PDF Author: Ian Russell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387322167
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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Book Description
This volume begins a discourse on the implications of performing archaeology in a world dominated by modern trends of mass production, mass replication and representation of cultural forms, and mass consumption of images of the past. The contributors explore the extent to which contemporary consumption of mass-produced replicas, simulations, images and experiences of the past cause a crisis of representation of the past. Eschewing romantic beliefs, it discusses what archaeology can do.