Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past Book

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	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
1	The absent present: archaeologies of the contemporary past	3
Pt. I	Production and consumption	19
2	Models of production and consumption	21
3	Beyond consumption: toward an archaeology of consumerism	26
4	Archaeology as the design history of the everyday	51
5	Integrated archaeology: a garbage paradigm	63
Pt. II	Remembering and forgetting	77
6	Between remembering and forgetting	79
7	The politics of remembrance in the new South Africa	84
8	Archaeology of the Colorado Coal Field War 1913-1914	94
9	Black sharecroppers and white frat boys: living communities and the appropriation of their archaeological pasts	108
Pt. III	Disappearance and disclosure	119
10	Bodies of evidence	121
11	Archaeology of World War 2: the Lancaster bomber of Fleville (Meurthe-et-Moselle, France)	126
12	Science and human rights: truth, justice, reparation and reconciliation, a long way in Third World countries	138
13	Forensic archaeology in the UK: questions of socio-intellectual context and socio-political responsibility	145
14	The archaeology of alienation: a late twentieth-century British council house	158
	Conclusions	169
15	Presencing absence	171
16	The archaeology of the contemporary past	175
17	Epilogue	189
	Index	192