Archaeology and the politics of vision in a post-modern context
Auteur :
Tomas, Julian
ISBN :
9781443800501
Date de publication :
1 déc. 2008
Dimensions :
21,2 x 14,8 x 3,3 cm
Poids :
635 g
Format :
With dust jacket
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Archaeology is intimately connected to the modern regime of vision. A concern with optics was fundamental to the Scientific Revolution, and informed the moral theories of the Enlightenment. And from its inception, archaeology was concerned with practices of depiction and classification that were profoundly scopic in character.