Narrating landscape: The potential of oral history for landscape archaeology
Riley, Mark; Harvey, David; Brown, Tony; et al.Mills, Sara
Date: 2005
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Journal
Public Archaeology
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Maney Publishing
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Abstract
The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is
considered. The paper presents the findings from an AHRB-funded project
‘Landscape archaeology and the community in Devon: an oral history approach’,
which aims to transgress some of the epistemological boundaries of archaeology by
drawing on the ...
The potential of an oral history approach to the study of landscape archaeology is
considered. The paper presents the findings from an AHRB-funded project
‘Landscape archaeology and the community in Devon: an oral history approach’,
which aims to transgress some of the epistemological boundaries of archaeology by
drawing on the discursive genre of oral history in order to augment, challenge and
destabilize existing landscape narratives. We suggest that oral histories can offer both
consensual as well as alternative narratives of landscape and have the ability to engage
the public, not just in terms of the popular consumption of archaeological knowledge,
but also in the actual construction of archaeological knowledge.
Geography - old structure
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