ANTH 554E - The Arch of the Contemporary

Credits: Variable

The Archaeology of the Contemporary is a graduate seminar that will examine how scholars can use archaeology to study the modern world. The course will begin with a review of the Behavioral Archaeology of the 1980 s and the first attempts to use archeology as a means to understand the contemporary. We will also discuss recent efforts primarily in Great Britain to construct an archaeology of the contemporary as a distinct topic of study in archaeology. A theme running through out the course will be the use of archaeology as a form of political action. This course is primarily intended for graduate students in the department of anthropology and does count as an archaeology course for the distribution requirement for the MA and PHD. Occasional.