In:
Antiquity, Cambridge University Press (CUP), Vol. 62, No. 235 ( 1988-06), p. 226-233
Abstract:
It is uncommon for the prehistorian to engage in the writing of culture history in the wider sense of the term – that is, to comment on major works of literature and art in the light of contemporary experience, learning and values. As archaeology has become a more professional field of study, discourse in recent years has come increasingly to have a discipline-centred focus. There is a price to pay for the habit of looking inward: the loss of contact with cultural and intellectual developments in the world at large. What is attempted in revisiting Old Calabria, a classic that Norman Douglas wrote in the early part of this century, is an experiment at writing archaeological discourse that is less self-centred and instead tries to look outward.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0003-598X
,
1745-1744
DOI:
10.1017/S0003598X00073956
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publication Date:
1988
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2031736-0
SSG:
6,14
SSG:
6,11
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