Modern Materials The Proceedings of CHAT Oxford, 2009 [Paperback]

This, the eighth volume in the series, brings together papers from the seventh CHAT Conference (2009), held at Keble College, Oxford on the theme of Modern Materials. Contents: Introduction: Materials Modern (Laura McAtackney & Brent Fortenberry); 2) Fields of Artefacts: Archaeologies of Contemporary Scientific Discovery (Matt Edgeworth); 3) An Archaeological Metaphysics of Care. On Heritage Ecologies, Epistemography and the Isotopy of the Past(s) (Timothy Webmoor); 4) The Realities of the Past: Archaeology, Object-Orientations, Pragmatology (Christopher Witmore); 5) The Workman Laid Down his Tools Approaches to the Recording and Analysis of Artefactual Remains in 19th and 20th Century Workshops (Chris Hewitson); 6) Hoarding, Re-using and Disposing: Domestic Repositories for Transient Objects (Tom Fisher); 7) Fort Santo Domingo: From a Cannonball to a Sea Battle A Case Study in the Potential of Historical Archaeology in Taiwan (Lu, Tai-Lung); 8) Quakerism and the Lack of Things in the Early Modern (John M. Chenoweth); 9) Archaeology of Cold War Early Warning Sites: The Case of Wasserkuppe, Germany (Gunnar Maus); 10) Telling a Story with Compass and Rule: Maps and the Meaning of Colonialism in St Lucia (Jane I. Seiter); 11) Cache Caves in the Santa Barbara Hinterland: New Insights into Indigenous Practice in Colonial California (Wendy Whitby); 12) The Humility of Sarah Baartman: materiality, memory, experience and contrapuntal accounts (Nick Shepherd).