Theme:
The archaeology of material culture, bodies and landscapes
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each
Title:
Perspectives on things, people and places AD 1500-2018
Content:
Archaeological research on the material culture of Europe in the historic period offers opportunities for highly contextualised study and analysis from the scale of a named individual or event right up to large-scale continental and global processes such as consumerism and colonialism. The papers will be relevant to the Barcelona theme of ‘Reflecting futures’ by examining how understanding individuals, groups and wider processes of the recent past provide windows into our contemporary and future world. This session will provoke consideration of how the relatively recent past affects the present. North American and Australasian historical archaeologists have been more willing to engage with current societal challenges through their archaeology than those in Europe. This session, sponsored by the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, will allow these issues to be discussed within a European context Current problems such as recession and stagnation, nationalism and regionalism, sexism and racism, imperialism and globalisation, can all be usefully explored for the recent past to better understand the Europe of today and tomorrow. These studies can examine how individuals or communities operated within these larger parameters, or can examine these wider processes, all from a material perspective.
Keywords:
post-medieval, historical, things, people, places
Session associated with MERC:
yes
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Main organiser:
Professor Harold Mytum (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Professor Sergio Escribano-Ruiz (Spain) 2
Affiliations:
1. University of Liverpool, UK
2. University of the Basque Country
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