The New Nomadic Age by Yannis Hamilakis

The New Nomadic Age by Yannis Hamilakis

It can be suggested that today we live in a new nomadic age, an age of global movement and migration. For the majority of people on earth, however, especially from the global south, crossing national borders and moving from the global south to the global north is risky, perilous, often lethal. Many are forced or compelled to migrate due to war, persecution, or the structural violence of poverty and deprivation. The phenomenon of forced and undocumented migration is one of the defining features of our era. And while the topic is at the centre of attention and study in many scholarly fields, the materiality of the phenomenon and its sensorial and mnemonic dimensions are barely understood and analysed. In this regard, contemporary archaeology can make an immense contribution. This book, the first archaeological anthology on the topic, takes up the challenge and explores the diverse intellectual, methodological, ethical, and political frameworks for an archaeology of forced and undocumented migration in the present. Matters of historical depth, theory, method, ethics and politics as well as heritage value and public representation are investigated and analysed, adopting a variety of perspectives. The book contains both short reflections and more substantive treatments and case studies from around the world, from the Mexico-USA border to Australia, and utilizes a diversity of narrative formats, including several photographic essays.

Yannis Hamilakis is Senior Lecturer at the University of Southampton and has taught at the University of Wales Lampeter (1996-2000) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2005). He has held a number of research fellowships with most recent a residential scholarship at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2005-2006). He has published extensively on the politics of the past, the archaeology of the consuming body, and the prehistory of the Aegean.Philip Duke is a professor of anthropology at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado, where he has taught since 1980. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Until recently, his professional work has been conducted on the archaeology of western North America, and he is the author of, among other publications, Points in Time: Structure and Event in a Late Northern Plains Hunting Society, and co-editor of Beyond Subsistence: Plains Archaeology and the Postprocessual Critique. He also works with the Ludlow Collective at the site of the 1914 Ludlow massacre near Trinidad, Colorado. His research interests include public archaeology and repatriation issues, and currently he is investigating the nexus between the construction of the Minoan Bronze Age and contemporary tourism on Crete.

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ISBN 13	9781781797112
ISBN 10	1781797110
Title	The New Nomadic Age
Author	Yannis Hamilakis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Equinox Publishing Ltd
Year published	2018-11-12
Number of pages	268
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