Social Lives of Places and Things
Social Lives of Places and Things
13 March 2008
Anth 3520
Welcome back!
Plan for class
Admin
Continuing on with the archaeology of space from last week
PLUS
Archaeology of Spectacles: Zoos and the Titanic
Admin
- attendance
- hand in papers
- next class - poster party!
Reading for Last Week was
March 6: Industrial Heritage and the Abandoned, cont'd, and To Boldly Go: Archaeology in Space
These articles deal with human made objects on the Moon, Mars, and in space, and with related sites on Earth. Don't worry too much about the legislative aspects about heritage regulations (although these are interesting); focus primarily on these as examples of the 'archaeology of us', and new landscapes, new places. There's so much human stuff in space!
Greg Fewer: Towards an LSMR and MSMR (Lunar and Martian Sites and Monuments Records): recording planetary spacecraft landing sites as archaeological monuments of the future. (pdf, 1003 Kb)
Alice Gorman: The Cultural Landscape of Interplanetary Space (pdf, 567 Kb)
Beth O'Leary: The Cultural Heritage of Space, the Moon, and other Celestial Bodies. Web page: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/oleary/index.html
Optional:
Check out the trouble with space junk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/spacejunk.shtml
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_space_junk.html
Google Mars: http://www.google.com/mars/
Google Moon: http://moon.google.com/
Mars Exploration: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/
Moon exploration (nice links under Resources): http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Moon
For this week
Mar 13: Archaeology of Spectacles: Zoos and the Titanic
All readings for this week are websites.
Archaeology of Zoos:
H. O'Regan From Bear Pit to Zoo: www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba68/feat2.shtml
C. Holtorf and D. van Reybrouck: Towards an Archaeology of Zoos:
www.zoonews.ws/IZN/325/IZN-325.htm#arch
Archaeology of the Titanic:
RMS Titanic Expedition 2003: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/03titanic/welcome.html
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition. Please quickly explore this website, particularly these pages:
www.sftitanic.com/exhibition.php, www.sftitanic.com/titanic_facts.php
Optional: Additional general info about the Titanic, there's some here: http://www.titanic- nautical.com/RMS-Titanic.html , and legislation protecting the wreck site: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2004/33690.htm
Zoos discussion
- arch of the contemporary past - fascinating history of zoos, but also some important ways in which zoos tell us what to think about animals, nature/culture, and even freedom itself
Titanic discussion
- arch of the contemporary past - underwater archaeology, salvage, etc... a tricky zone in heritage law..
- intertwining themes of disaster, commodification, heritage preservation, tourism...