Archaeologies of Waste : Encounters with the Unwanted.
Sosna, Daniel.
Archaeologies of Waste : Encounters with the Unwanted. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (201 pages)
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1 - Value of the Unwanted -- 2. Wastes and values -- 3. Purity and holy dumps of garbage: organising rubbish disposal in the Middle and Late Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin -- 4. Nightman's muck, gong farmer's treasure: local differences in the clearing-out of cesspits in the Low Countries, 1600-1900 -- Part 2 - Social Practice: Consumption and Differentiation -- 5. Waste, very much a social practice -- 6. One man's trash: how the excavation of Copenhagen's moat is revealing valuable information about the city's 17th century population -- 7. Cesspits and finds: archaeological study of waste management and its social significance in medieval Tartu, Estonia -- 8. Recyclable waste as a marker of everyday life routines -- Part 3 - Positioning Waste: Spatial Nature of Waste -- 9. Waste wanted: no space without time and place -- 10. Neolithic settlement space: waste, deposition and identity -- 11. The detritus of life and death: re-evaluating perceptions of rubbish on an Irish Late Bronze Age enclosure -- 12. Heterotopias behind the fence: landfills as relational emplacements -- Postscript -- Index.
9781785703287
Differentiation (Sociology) - History.
Electronic books.
CC72.4.A7343 2017
930.1028
Archaeologies of Waste : Encounters with the Unwanted. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (201 pages)
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- Part 1 - Value of the Unwanted -- 2. Wastes and values -- 3. Purity and holy dumps of garbage: organising rubbish disposal in the Middle and Late Bronze Age of the Carpathian Basin -- 4. Nightman's muck, gong farmer's treasure: local differences in the clearing-out of cesspits in the Low Countries, 1600-1900 -- Part 2 - Social Practice: Consumption and Differentiation -- 5. Waste, very much a social practice -- 6. One man's trash: how the excavation of Copenhagen's moat is revealing valuable information about the city's 17th century population -- 7. Cesspits and finds: archaeological study of waste management and its social significance in medieval Tartu, Estonia -- 8. Recyclable waste as a marker of everyday life routines -- Part 3 - Positioning Waste: Spatial Nature of Waste -- 9. Waste wanted: no space without time and place -- 10. Neolithic settlement space: waste, deposition and identity -- 11. The detritus of life and death: re-evaluating perceptions of rubbish on an Irish Late Bronze Age enclosure -- 12. Heterotopias behind the fence: landfills as relational emplacements -- Postscript -- Index.
9781785703287
Differentiation (Sociology) - History.
Electronic books.
CC72.4.A7343 2017
930.1028