I finished a short piece last night on Bourdieu and his concept of habitus – for the new Routledge Key Concepts in Archaeology . OK a key concept, in some ways, for recent social archaeology. (In some ways, becuase many don’t make open reference to the concept, though they are influenced by it and its…
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Ben Cullen
Ben Cullen died eight years ago today in Cardigan, Wales. He was only 31. He had the same birthday as my daughter Molly; died on my parents wedding day. He was a great friend. Ben’s big idea was that biological organisms and things are not always as radically different as we usually hold. Viral phenomena…
archaeology needs bold science
A seminar with Bjørnar Olsen and and Chris Witmore at Stanford Archaeology Center. Our title Innocence regained? Is there a new consensus in archaeology? An alternative case for bold thinking. I wrote Social Theory in Archaeology and Reconstructing Archaeology back in the 1980s partly because I was so disenchanted with archaeological thinking – we wanted…
material ironies
The Chapman Family Collection at the Saatchi Gallery in London I love the ironies and humor– they look like old wooden ethnographic fetishes – until you see the MacDonalds logo.
A way of thinking
East End of London. Looking for a house on Princelet Street. Alessandra Lopez Y Royo puts it all this way – archaeology is a way of thinking.
The perfume of garbage
Beginning work with Bill Rathje and David Platt on a paper for a special issue on archaeology and modernism for the journal Modernism/Modernity This is how we begin with the World Trade Center There is something profoundly archaeological about the experience of 9/11 and its aftermath. Less than a month after the attack a meeting…