Bruno's blueprint
Author(s): Cassie Newland
Year: 2013
Summary
ANT-archaeology (another hyphen I know!) is all about how we build our worlds. In a relational world where does fieldwork start? Where does it stop? And what part do we play as authors? This paper takes Bruno Latour's Reassembling the social as a blueprint for fieldwork (except the last chapter, which was a bit of a cop-out) and translates it into materially grounded archaeological methodology. The result is a whistle stop tour of the 1879 Cape Telegraph Cable taking in Chilean mining, Swedish tar monopolies, Kew's international network of biological gardens, Bangladeshi jute factories, turpentining camps of the deep south, chintz, Catherine Zeta Jones and the Zulu wars.
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Bruno's blueprint. Cassie Newland. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428217)
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Keywords
General
Latour fieldwork telegraph
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
1879
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 485