The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline

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ISBN: 9780415172059 | 0415172055
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Copyright: 11/11/1997

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A guide to the discipline of classical archaeology, this study assesses archaeology as a means of reconstructing Greek society using the latest approaches of social archaeology.Classical Archaeology of Greecealso outlines the history of the discipline and discusses why Classical Greece continues to fascinate us and why it has had such an impact on European civilization and identity.

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Acknowledgements

xiii

An Introduction

(8)

A Search for Sources

(13)

Cities and Sanctuaries, Art and Archaeology: Roots in the Past

(31)

A history of pottery studies

(3)

Typology and classification

(1)

Art and judgements of style

(4)

Pottery and the connoisseurs

(7)

Interlude: Sherlock Holmes, the doctor Watson and John Beazley

(4)

Iconographers and iconologists

(2)

Imperial collections and the big digs

(6)

Ancient history, the historical event and descriptive narrative

(3)

Concluding remarks

(1)

Greek Myths and Metanarratives: From Winckelmann to Bernal

(39)

Collectors and antiquarians

(2)

Travellers

(1)

Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Greek art

(3)

Constituting the art object

(1)

Vickers and Gill and the critique of ceramic art

(6)

Taste and the Greek

(3)

German academics and the idealisation of Greece

(1)

Classicism, Romanticism and neo-Classicism

(6)

Tourism

(5)

Modern Greeks into the past

(2)

Hellenism and cultural politics

(1)

Anthropology and European origins

(4)

Orientalism and Bernal's critique of the constitution of the Greek

(5)

Concluding points

(1)

Scholarship and Discourse

(27)

Introduction

(1)

Types of text

(4)

Communities and institutions

(2)

Mavericks

(4)

Discourse

103

(1)

Interlude: Classical rhetoric - a theory of discourse

104

(4)

Ian Morris and 'Postmodernist Classical Archaeology'

108

(3)

Technologies of cultural production: rhetoric, winning friends and trust

111

(5)

The writing of history

116

(2)

Concluding remarks

118

(1)

Rudiments of a Social Archaeology

119

(37)

The sources

119

(4)

Ideologies of archaeology

123

(1)

Commentary and critique: objects and the character of archaeological interpretation

123

(5)

The need for a social archaeology of Classical Greece

128

(1)

Approaches to social archaeology

128

(1)

Pottery and social context

129

(3)

The Snodgrass school of Iron Age studies

132

(11)

Processual Classical archaeology: some summary points

143

(1)

The category of the decorative: on meaning and material culture

144

(5)

John Berger, Peter Fuller and lessons of idealist art history

149

(5)

Understanding the archaeological and a prehistory of the classical past

154

(2)

Some Topics and Issues in a Social Archaeology of Classical Greece

156

(13)

Chronology and time

156

(3)

Economic prehistory/archaeology

159

(1)

Social connections

159

(4)

Understanding style

163

(2)

Religion and ritual

165

(1)

Space, survey and landscape

165

(3)

Concluding remarks

168

(1)

Archaeology, Classics and Contemporary Culture

169

(14)

Nietzsche and the Classics

173

(4)

Nietzsche and effective history

177

(1)

Archaeological roles: vital histories for the present

178

(1)

Actuality: the time of archaeology

179

(2)

Classical heritage and consuming interests

181

(2)

Select bibliography and suggested further reading

183

(10)

Index

193

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The Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline

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