TY - BOOK ID - 138517484 TI - After modernity : archaeological approaches to the contemporary past AU - Harrison, Rodney AU - Schofield, A. J. PY - 2010 SN - 0191613886 0191917753 1282759698 9786612759697 019159136X 9780191591365 9780191917752 0199548080 9780199548088 0199548072 9780199548071 9781282759695 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - History, Modern KW - Archaeology KW - Historiography. KW - Philosophy. KW - Civilization, Modern UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138517484 AB - This book summarizes archaeological approaches to the contemporary past, and suggests a new agenda for the archaeology of late modern societies. The principal focus is the archaeology of developed, de-industrialized societies during the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. This period encompasses the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the 'internet age', a period which sits firmly within what we would recognize to be a period of 'lived and living memory'. Rodney Harrison and John Schofield explore how archaeology can inform the study of this time period and the study of our own society through detailed case studies and an in-depth summary of the existing literature. Their book draws together cross-disciplinaryperspectives on contemporary material culture studies, and develops a new agenda for the study of the materiality of late modern societies.-- ER -