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Table of Contents
Introduction On the multiple fields of archaeology
I History
Chapter 1—Contemporary field practice, the interpretive turn, and symmetrical archaeology
The notion of fieldwork in contemporary archaeological thinking
Theory into practice—the interpretive turn in fieldwork
Two turns deserve a third: a symmetrical archaeology
A brief symmetrical example from Çatalhöyük
Chapter 2—Constituting the Field
“Instrumental mixtures”: a sociotechnical genealogy of survey practice in Greece
The Expedition scientifique de Moree and a map of the Peloponnesus
The media and instruments of professionalization
Photography and classical archaeology
II Concepts
Chapter 3—Media | archaeology
Multiple fields and surface survey
modernist divides and hermeneutics: bypassing interpretation for mediation
III Methods
Chapter 4—Multiple fields and media
Multiple fields methodologies—mediating materiality
active media: digital verses paper-based
auditory archaeology or the "belles noiseuses"
located media and peripatetic video
mixed media and digital templates
IV Case experiments and studies
Chapter 5—Multiplicity and landscape
A topology of the southern Argolid
Multiple fields: a brief conclusion
Dissertation Conclusions
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