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Ma Thesis: "Contemporary Archaeology In Transit: The Material Culture Of The Van", Adrian T. Myers
Ma Thesis: "Contemporary Archaeology In Transit: The Material Culture Of The Van", Adrian T. Myers
Adrian Myers
Theory and methods unique to the discipline of archaeology are particularly suited to the study of the recent and contemporary past. This dissertation uses an assemblage of recently abandoned material culture as a medium for exploring the world in which we all live. First it is suggested that if we are to study contemporary material culture, then our methodology must be collaborative, multivocal, and innovative. Next, an assemblage of materials recovered from a 1991 Ford Transit van, used by archaeologists in the field for eight years, is investigated as a case study. The vehicle is epistemologically dismantled, and it is …
Book Review Of Heather Pringle, The Master Plan: Himmler’S Scholars And The Holocaust, Adrian Myers
Book Review Of Heather Pringle, The Master Plan: Himmler’S Scholars And The Holocaust, Adrian Myers
Adrian Myers
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Portable Material Culture And Death Factory Auschwitz, Adrian Myers
Portable Material Culture And Death Factory Auschwitz, Adrian Myers
Adrian Myers
Like any other factory, the death factory of Auschwitz consumed primary materials and produced secondary products. Unique to Auschwitz, though, is that the primary material consumed was human life; not just the life of the breathing human body, but also the material possessions associated with that life. The detritus of this most efficient genocide – clothing, jewellery, food, corpses – was appropriated and put to new uses by the SS and the prisoners. Others have recognised the various postwar material cultural outcomes of the camp: the writing, the film, the theatre, the art, the tourism. This article, however, demonstrates that …
The Van: Screws And Christmas Crackers, Adrian Myers