Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

Sarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, Kisha Supernant (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2020
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-710-1 (ISBN)

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This volume demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Sarah Surface-Evans is Senior Archaeologist at the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Sarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, and Kisha Supernant

Part I: Imagining Timescapes: Invoking Haunting, Memory, and Nostalgia

Chapter 1. Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating across Timescapes and between Worldviews

April M. Beisaw

Chapter 2. Material Memories: Interpreting Souvenirs and Heirlooms in the Archaeological Record

Erica Begun

Chapter 3. Journeys through Space and Time: Materiality, Social Memory, and Community at the City of David

Heather Van Wormer

Part II: Confronting Lingering Specters

Chapter 4. Recognizing Ghosts and Haunting in the Rural Midwest: Finding Community, Identity, and Wisdom in the Past

P. M. W. Lawton

Chapter 5. The Unwilling Student and the Ghost of Physical Anthropology: Public Perceptions of the Ethics of Physical Anthropology

Nicole M. Burt

Chapter 6. From Haunted to Haunting: Métis Ghosts in the Past and Present

Kisha Supernant

Part III: Identifying Ghosts within the Capitalist Landscapes of Late Modernity

Chapter 7. Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow: Haunting, Trauma, and the Cruelty of the Agrarian Dream

Lilian Brislen

Chapter 8. Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story

A. E. Garrison

Chapter 9. Traumascapes: Progress and the Erasure of the Past

Sarah Surface-Evans

Chapter 10. Brickwork, Capitalism, Collective Memory, and the Commons

Brigitte H. Bechtold

Epilogue: Ghosts, Haunting, and Refusals to Erasure

Kisha Supernant, April M. Beisaw, A. E. Garrison, and Sarah Surface-Evans

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.06.2020
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78920-710-X / 178920710X
ISBN-13	978-1-78920-710-1 / 9781789207101
Zustand	Neuware