Archaeologies of Memory

A unique collection of newly written essays by archaeologists working in a variety of contexts and geographical areas, Archaeologies of Memory is a groundbreaking text that presents a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. Serves as an accessible introduction to central issues in the study of memory, including authority and identity, and the role memory plays in their creation and transformation. Presents a collection of newly commissioned essays that provide a coherent framework for the study of memory in past societies. Brings together essays from both anthropological and classical archaeologists. Includes contributions drawn from a variety of cultures and time periods, including New Kingdom Egypt and the prehistoric American Southwest.

Ruth M. Van Dyke is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Colorado College. She directs archaeological research in Chaco Canyon and in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. She has recently published work in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Kiva and American Antiquity.

Susan E. Alcock is John H. D’Arms Collegiate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Classics at the University of Michigan. Her publications include Graecia Capta: The Landscapes of Roman Greece (1993), Pausanias: Travel & Memory in Roman Greece (co-editor, 2001), Empires: Perspectives from Archaeology and History (co-editor, 2001), and Archaeologies of the Greek Past: Landscape, Monuments and Memory (2002).

List of Plates

vii

List of Figures

viii

List of Maps

ix

Notes on the Contributors

x

Preface

xiii

1. Archaeologist of Memory: An Introduction

1

(14)

Ruth M. Van Dike and Susan E. Alcock

Part I: Memory Studies with Access to Texts

15

(112)

2. Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and Historical Memory, Vijayanagara as Historical Memory

17

(17)

Carla M. Sinopoli

3. Memory's Materiality: Ancestral Presence, Commemorative Practice and Disjunctive Locales

34

(22)

Lynn Meskell

4. Memory Tattered and Torn: Spolia in the Heartland of Byzantine Hellenism

56

(25)

Amy Papalexandrou

5. Glories of the Past in the Past: Ritual Activities at Palatial Ruins in Early Iron Age Crete

81

(23)

Mieke Prent

6. Concrete Memories: Fragments of the Past in the Classic Maya Present (500-1000 AD)

104

(23)

Rosemary A. Joyce

Part II: Memory Studies in Prehistory

127

(76)

7. Creating Memory in Prehistory: The Engraved Slate Plaques of Southwest Iberia

129

(22)

Katina T Lillios

8. Mounds, Memory, and Contested Mississippian History

151

(29)

Timothy R. Pauketat and Susan M. Alt

9. Memory and the Construction of Chacoan Society

180

(23)

Ruth M. Van Dyke

201

(2)

Part III: Caveats and Commentaries

10. The Familiar Honeycomb: Byzantine Era Reuse Of Sicily's Prehistoric Rock-Cut Tombs

203

(18)

Emma Blake

11. The Translation of Time

221

(7)

Richard Bradley

Index

228

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Archaeologies of Memory

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