Archaeologies of Value in the Modern World

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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

In this paper I will review a sample of theoretical approaches to the concept of value derived from the social sciences through the lens of modern world archaeology. This is an era for which the relative abundance of goods tends to prejudice our conception of the complex nature of value construction. I argue that the process of devaluation, through discard and waste, offers a unique archaeological understanding of the shifting values people of the modern world placed on commodities, particularly those living in outposts of the British colonies.

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• Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

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