Conflict Behind the Lines: Considering Civilians in Conflict Archeology

Author(s): Carl Carlson-Drexler

Year: 2020

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "“We Go to Gain a Little Patch of Ground. That hath in it no profit but the name”: Revolutionary Research in Archaeologies of Conflict" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In challenging the battle-focused perception of Conflict Archeology, we need to consider the deep reach of warfare and social strife to areas away from the front lines. Archeologists have been trying to consider civilian connections to war in recent years, and there are other bodies of theory, from outside the discipline, that offer as-yet untapped potential. This paper explores some of the directions we have been testing, and argues for greater engagement with anthropological, historical, and sociological work on civilians in conflict and disaster situations.

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Conflict Behind the Lines: Considering Civilians in Conflict Archeology. Carl Carlson-Drexler. 2020 ( tDAR id: 456783)

Keywords

General
conflict Militarism Theory

Geographic Keywords
United States of America

Temporal Keywords
19th Century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 975