Professor Robin Skeates robin.skeates@durham.ac.uk
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Making sense of the history of archaeological representation
Skeates, R.
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Professor Robin Skeates robin.skeates@durham.ac.uk
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C. McDavid
Editor
J. Carman
Editor
Abstract
‘Representation’ is one of the key cultural practices through which meanings are produced and exchanged (e.g. Hall 1997; Giles and Middleton 2008). Culturally-defined systems of representation incorporate a wide variety of signifying practices and media. The broadly shared meanings encoded in these expressive forms are made sense of and connected by the social practice of discourse. Through this, dominant conventions, meanings, ideologies, and power relations can be accepted, negotiated, or opposed. Who represents whom, what, where, and how determines the representations available for us. But precisely how we interpret them (especially in terms of what they mean to our personal identities, emotions, and attachments) depends upon the realities being represented and upon our own histories, our social positions, and the ways in which we understand the world.
Citation
Skeates, R. (2012). Making sense of the history of archaeological representation. In R. Skeates, C. McDavid, & J. Carman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of public archaeology (82-99). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237821.013.0005
Publication Date | Jan 5, 2012 |
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Deposit Date | Jan 3, 2012 |
Publicly Available Date | Apr 6, 2016 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 82-99 |
Book Title | The Oxford handbook of public archaeology. |
Chapter Number | 4 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237821.013.0005 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1657098 |
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This is a draft of a chapter that was accepted for publication by Oxford University Press in the book The Oxford handbook of public archaeology' edited by R. Skeates, C. McDavid and J. Carman and published in 2012.
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