This is a final call for additional papers for a session on 'The
Archaeology of Travel' for the 2005 SHA conference in York. We have had
great interest in this topic, two wonderful discussants planned, and at
this point may even be dividing the session into two, so there is still
plenty of room... All Aboard?
Please e-mail me off list with queries or paper abstracts.
Cheers,
Lynda Carroll
Abstract: Travel has rarely been a topic of focused or serious study in
archaeology, especially as it pertains to social relations in the past.
Travel is not solely the product of play, leisure, or the simple movement
of people through space, but is enmeshed in key social relations. Travel
creates contexts for the expression and elaboration of social relations
and it is these contexts we wish to explore. This session focuses on the
connections between social relations and travel in the past through
archaeological examples, which can include travel related sites or
landscapes. Papers can explore a broad range of issues, including
continuity and change in travel; the production and consumption of space,
place and leisure; and social relations such as class, religion,
ethnicity, nationality, race, gender, or other forms of identity as they
relate to travel. We aim for a broad, comparative framework of processes
that will help us illuminate the importance of travel in the past and how
it relates to the formation of our modern landscapes of mass tourism and
globalization.
We envision the session as focusing on broad scale process through
exploration of lower level case studies. Solely descriptive studies of
individual sites, artifact assemblages, or the nuts and bolts of heritage
management do not necessarily fall within the purview of this session.
Papers that explore process through theoretically informed studies of
material culture or landscape are preferred.
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Lynda Carroll
Project Director, Public Archaeology Facility
Department of Anthropology
Binghamton University, SUNY
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
607)-777-6319
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