Van Dyke R.M, Alcock S.E. (eds.) Archaeologies of Memory

Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2003. — 247 p.This collaboration was originally conceived at a roundtable luncheon during the 1999 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Chicago. Sue Alcock had been working on monuments and memory in Roman Greece, and Ruth Van Dyke had been thinking about memory from the standpoint of Chacoan roads running to abandoned sites. In our conversation that day, we agreed that the uses of archaeology in the politics of the present were receiving quite a lot of attention, but not so the equally fascinating political uses of archaeology in the past. We also realized that we were coming at similar issues from different, if overlapping, contexts of study.To bridge the still too familiar gap between classical and anthropological archaeology, we surmised that it might be useful to bring people from these disparate backgrounds together to discuss common interests in archaeology and memory.