Archaeologies of Waste

Encounters with the Unwanted

Daniel Sosna, Lenka Brunclíková (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

182 Seiten

2016
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78570-327-0 (ISBN)

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A major new multi-disciplinary exploration of the relationship between waste and human societies in terms of value, social differentiation, and space.

Waste represents a category of ‘things’, which is familiar and ubiquitous but rarely reflected in archaeological and cultural studies. Perception of waste changes over time and practices associated with waste vary. The ambiguity of waste challenges traditional archaeological approaches that take advantage of refuse to infer past behaviour. Recent developments in research in the social sciences and humanities indicate that waste offers many more dimensions for exploration.

This interdisciplinary book brings together scholars who demonstrate the potential of research into waste for understanding humans, non-humans and their inter-relations. In 12 chapters the authors cover topics ranging from the relationship between waste and identity in early agricultural settlements to the perception of contemporary nuclear waste. Although archaeological approaches dominate the contributions, there are also chapters that represent the results of anthropological and historical research.

The book is structured into three main sections that explore the relationship between waste and three domains of interest: value, social differentiation, and space. Archaeologies of Waste will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and other readers intrigued by the potential of things, which were left behind, to shed light on social life.

Daniel Sosna is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, and focuses on the research of contemporary waste. Lenka Brunclíková is a researcher at the University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic, and focuses on the research of contemporary waste.

Preface

Daniel Sosna & Lenka Brunclíková

1. Introduction

Daniel Sosna & Lenka Brunclíková

SECTION 1 – Value of the Unwanted

2. Wastes and Values

Joshua Reno

3. Purity and Holy Dumps of Garbage: Organising Rubbish Disposal in the Middle and Late Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin

Laura Dietrich

4. Nightman’s Muck, Gong Farmer’s Treasure: Local Differences in the Clearing-Out of Cesspits in the Low Countries, 1600 – 1900

Roos van Oosten

SECTION 2 – Social Practice: Consumption and Differentiation

5. Waste, Very Much a Social Practice

Anders Högberg

6. One Man’s Trash: How the Excavation of Copenhagen’s Moat is revealing Valuable Information about the City’s 17th Century Population

Ed Lyne & Camilla Haarby Hansen

7. Cesspits and Finds: Study of Waste Management and its Social Significance in Medieval Tartu, Estonia

Arvi Haak

8. Recyclable Waste as a Marker of Everyday Life Routine

Lenka Brunclíková

SECTION 3 – Positioning Waste: Spatial Nature of Waste

9. Waste Wanted: No Space without Time and Place

Sabine Wolfram

10. Neolithic Settlement Space: Waste, Deposition and Identity

Petr Květina & Jaroslav Řídký

11. The Detritus of Life and Death: Re-evaluating Perceptions of Rubbish on an Irish Late Bronze Age Enclosure

Clíodhna Ni Lionain

12. Heterotopias behind the Fence: Landfills as Relational Emplacements

Daniel Sosna

Afterword

Claudia Theune

Erscheinungsdatum	24.11.2016
Zusatzinfo	b/w
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-10	1-78570-327-7 / 1785703277
ISBN-13	978-1-78570-327-0 / 9781785703270
Zustand	Neuware