Wish you were here?

It is fun to see what Google Ads throws up sometimes. I found this while creating the image for yesterday’s post at http://www.customsigngenerator.com/digital.asp

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Shopping for Philosophy II: This time it’s personal

Is this where I lose the plot?
One reason for rejecting critical theory as used by many archaeologists is that I cannot take it seriously. A helpful book I read was Intellectual Impostures by Sokal and Bricmont. Not because it gave me an excuse to ignore a large body of work, but rather because it gave [...]

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Shopping for Philosophy

A premature obituary.
Occasionally I have communication trouble. I have a naïve tendency to take things at face value. For instance I thought that archaeologists who built their ideas around Foucault’s ideas had actually read Foucault. It turns out they’ve read Foucault in translation. Fair enough, philosophical French is a little dense, there’s nothing wrong with [...]

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On Public Historiography

Oh dear I’m not feeling at all well.
I’ve just read an article “What Drives History?” by Jeremy Black, Professor of History at the University of Exeter. In it he argues that historiography doesn’t pay enough attention to public interpretations of history. This is view that I have a lot of sympathy for. In addition I [...]

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Archaeology as it should be

Trajan’s Markets. Photo by MHarrsch.
A story from Ansa.it has caught my eye. I spend a lot of time studying the cursed remains of pagan temples, but I’ve never come across unspeakably giant monsters guarding ancient secrets while I do it. It turns out I’ve been looking in the wrong place. Part of ancient Rome is [...]

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That’s just unfortunate

I was looking at the BBC Leicester website for, I forget exactly what now. What I found was an article of the social life of post-grad students. I thought it could be interesting as I don’t recall having much of one. I then flipped onto another article on massage parlours. This happens because the BBC [...]

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The International Conference on the Arts in Society

I’ve been sent a Call for Papers for The International Conference on the Arts in Society. My initial feeling is to ask where else the Arts would be. I mention it as Theme 5 Audiences includes: Virutal audiences, blogs, cyber-art and performance. I was about to suggest that a panel of bloggers might be interesting. [...]

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Put What Where?

Facts of Life and Love for Teen-Agers. Photo uploaded by Paula Wirth.
I followed the link Put What Where? from Early Modern Notes because I thought that taken a certain way it might sound a bit rude. Yes, I am a bit naive. It’s a link to a story about a book on 2000 years [...]

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When does a corpse become an object?

Ethics. Photo by Dey.
Michael Shanks appears to be back online again after a summer hiatus. There’s an interesting post about the repatriation of human remains. The UK doesn’t really have the same repatriation issues that the US or Australia has. It’s not that we don’t have the bodies, but the peoples concerned are usually so [...]

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Archaeology Sudoku

I’ve found a picture Sudoku script which should be easy for those with tidy minds. This link will take you to a page that has archaeology photos instead of numbers.

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