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Overview
Theatre/Archaeology is a brilliant and provocative challenge to disciplinary practice and intellectual boundaries. It brings together radical proposals in both archaeological and performance theory to facilitate a new way of investigating landscape and cityscape, and notions of physicality, encounter, site and context.An extremely influential book. (Julian Thomas, Univesity of Manchester)
Fascinating and ground-breaking. (Elin Diamond, Rutgers University)
Editorials
Booknews
Pearson (performance studies, University of Wales) and Shanks (classics and cultural anthropology, Stanford University) synthesize radical elements of archaeological and performance theory to create a methodological framework for the study of landscape and cityscape. The also apply this methodology to the exploration of concepts like physicality, encounter, site, and context. The result is "the joint elaboration of a blurred genre, a mixture of narration and scientific practices, an integrated approach to recording, writing and illustrating the material past"<-->(from the preface). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
March 7, 2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
240
ISBN
9781134648443