Um deles é sem dúvida este do Prof. Julian Thomas, nosso colega da Universidade de Manchester, onde é professor catedrático de arqueologia.
Intitula-se: Archaeology and Modernity". Publicado pela Routledge (que editora espantosa!) em Londres, em 2004.
Permito-me transcrever a descrição-apresentação da obra, em ingês:
"Archaeologists have long recognised that they study past worlds which may be quite unlike our own. But how are we to cope with the difference of the past if our own circumstances are unique within human history? What is archaeology itself depends on ways of thinking that are specific to the modern western world? This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still dominate our approach to the material remains of ancient societies. It discusses the modern emphasis on method rather than ethics or meaning, our understanding of change in history and nature, the role of the nation-state in forming our views of the past, and contemporary notions of human individuality, the mind, and materiality. Julian Thomas also addresses the modern preoccupation with depth, which enables archaeology to be used as a metaphor in other disciplines. The book concludes by advocating a 'counter-modern' archaeology, which refuses to separate material evidence from political, moral, rhetorical and aesthetic concerns, as well as meaning".
É imprescindível!
Intitula-se: Archaeology and Modernity". Publicado pela Routledge (que editora espantosa!) em Londres, em 2004.
Permito-me transcrever a descrição-apresentação da obra, em ingês:
"Archaeologists have long recognised that they study past worlds which may be quite unlike our own. But how are we to cope with the difference of the past if our own circumstances are unique within human history? What is archaeology itself depends on ways of thinking that are specific to the modern western world? This is the first book-length study to explore the relationship between archaeology and modern thought, showing how philosophical ideas that developed in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries still dominate our approach to the material remains of ancient societies. It discusses the modern emphasis on method rather than ethics or meaning, our understanding of change in history and nature, the role of the nation-state in forming our views of the past, and contemporary notions of human individuality, the mind, and materiality. Julian Thomas also addresses the modern preoccupation with depth, which enables archaeology to be used as a metaphor in other disciplines. The book concludes by advocating a 'counter-modern' archaeology, which refuses to separate material evidence from political, moral, rhetorical and aesthetic concerns, as well as meaning".
É imprescindível!
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