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JCA Book Reviews: Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. By Timothy Morton

On February 23, 2015 By Kimberly Willis

Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. By Timothy Morton, 2013. Hardback, 240 pp, 23 plates. ISBN 9780816689224. In this book, Timothy Morton explores the connection between objects and ecology at a time of environmental crisis that is increasingly being referred to as the “Anthropocene”. From [...]

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JCA Book Reviews: How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement. By Lambros Malafouris

On February 23, 2015 By Kimberly Willis

How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. By Lambros Malafouris, 2013. Hardback, 304pp. ISBN: 9780262019194. Lambros Malafouris’s book sets out to exposit what he calls “Material Engagement Theory”. Reading the effusive foreword leaves the reader in no doubt that this proposition is firmly rooted in Colin Renfrew’s cognitive [...]

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JCA Book Reviews: Wallanderland. Medieturisme og skandinavisk TV-krimi By Anne Marit Waade

On February 23, 2015 By Kimberly Willis

Wallanderland. Medieturisme og skandinavisk TV-krimi. Studier i krimi og kriminaljournalstik 3. By Anne Marit Waade, 2013. Paperback, 227 pp. ISBN 978-87-7112-077-6. The Danish media theorist Anne Marit Waade explores in this timely study the phenomenon of media tourism, using tourism in the footsteps of Inspector Kurt Wallander as her example. The character of Wallander was [...]

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JCA Book Reviews: The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini

On February 23, 2015 By Kimberly Willis

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Edited by Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini, 2013. Hardback, 823 pp. ISBN: 9780199602001. With this publication, the archaeology of the contemporary world joins 16 other fields of archaeological study that have been presented in the series of Oxford Handbooks [...]

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JCA Book Reviews: Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-Verbal Communication By Pierre Lemonnier

On February 23, 2015 By Kimberly Willis

Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-Verbal Communication. UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series 10. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. By Pierre Lemonnier, 2012. Hardback, 205pp. ISBN: 9781611320565. Long before the materiality fever in archaeology and the social sciences in general, there was a group of researchers taking things very seriously: the French school [...]

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