Overview

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

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Author:   Sarah Surface-Evans ,  A. E. Garrison ,  Kisha Supernant
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805393054

ISBN 10:   1805393057
Pages:   210
Publication Date:   01 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Sarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, and Kisha Supernant Part I: Imagining Timescapes: Invoking Haunting, Memory, and Nostalgia Chapter 1. Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating across Timescapes and between Worldviews April M. Beisaw Chapter 2. Material Memories: Interpreting Souvenirs and Heirlooms in the Archaeological Record Erica Begun Chapter 3. Journeys through Space and Time: Materiality, Social Memory, and Community at the City of David Heather Van Wormer Part II: Confronting Lingering Specters Chapter 4. Recognizing Ghosts and Haunting in the Rural Midwest: Finding Community, Identity, and Wisdom in the Past P. M. W. Lawton Chapter 5. The Unwilling Student and the Ghost of Physical Anthropology: Public Perceptions of the Ethics of Physical Anthropology Nicole M. Burt Chapter 6. From Haunted to Haunting: Métis Ghosts in the Past and Present Kisha Supernant Part III: Identifying Ghosts within the Capitalist Landscapes of Late Modernity Chapter 7. Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow: Haunting, Trauma, and the Cruelty of the Agrarian Dream Lilian Brislen Chapter 8. Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story A. E. Garrison Chapter 9. Traumascapes: Progress and the Erasure of the Past Sarah Surface-Evans Chapter 10. Brickwork, Capitalism, Collective Memory, and the Commons Brigitte H. Bechtold Epilogue: Ghosts, Haunting, and Refusals to Erasure Kisha Supernant, April M. Beisaw, A. E. Garrison, and Sarah Surface-Evans Index

Reviews

“This book is an exciting and invigorating experience for the reader. The reader is asked to engage actively with stories that stand outside typical conventions of scholarly narratives, and the quality of the writing makes that an easy task…Blurring ideas of time and space allow other critical aspects of the tangible and intangible to come into sharp focus, and gently provoke new ways of thinking and knowing.” • Jane Baxter, DePaul University “This collection represents contemporary archaeological praxis that realigns the possibilities of archaeological theory through radical, brave, and at times vulnerable intersectional standpoints that inform a new way forward. The case studies, analysis, and life stories stay with you after you read it; it haunts you.” • Uzma Z. Rizvi, Pratt Institute

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Sarah Surface-Evans is Senior Archaeologist at the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office.

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