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Excavation, Narration, and the Wild Man: Montage and Linearity in Representing Archaeology
Author(s) -
Mickel Allison
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12017
Subject(s) - narrativity , excavation , archaeology , narrative , historical archaeology , history , art , literature
Summary This article contrasts the way that archaeologists discuss the practice and experience of archaeology with each other to the way archaeology is represented to nonspecialist public audiences. I argue that the former is characterized by “montage,” while the latter is typified by a radically opposed linear narrativity, suggesting that montage may offer a way of ameliorating many of the problems linked to popular (mis)conceptions of archaeology.