The Mirror in the Ground

The Mirror in the Ground: Archaeology, photography and the making of a disciplinary archive.
Shepherd, Nick
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Title: The Mirror in the Ground
Subtitle: Archaeology, photography and the making of a disciplinary archive
Author: Nick Shepherd
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Cape Town; Johannesburg; South Africa, 2015
ISBN 9781868426782 / ISBN 978-1-86842-678-2
Hardcover, 22 x 22 cm, 128 pages, throughout b/w and colour photos

Description:

The appeal of this superb book on archaeology, photography and the making of a disciplinary archive is its immediacy, its intimacy. The Mirror in the Ground is not about past events but about the world as we now know it. The beautifully written texts that accompany the photographs, not just mere losses but powerful invocations to see them otherwise, provoke the violence of looking and knowing [that] modernity deployed worldwide s a neutral cognitive device.

Content: The Mirror in the Ground

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Prologue: a gaze that pierces
Introduction: archaeology and photography
The modest violet
The Grand Tour
Cleaning up the Stone Ages
When the hand that holds the trowel is black
Nigeria
Picnic in a cave
Remembering and forgetting Peers Cave
What Mr Goodwin saw at the showgrounds
Oakhurst Cave
Conclusion: refraining archaeology
References