Michael Shanks (archaeologist)

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Michael Shanks (* 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is an English archaeologist .

Life

He attended the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle upon Tyne from 1970 to 1976 , which he found very conservative .

He then studied at Cambridge , where he received his BA in 1980 , although he hardly attended any lectures. He received his MA from Peterhouse in 1983 . In 1982 he obtained the Post Graduate Certificate of Education (comparable to the German state examination ) at Durham University and then worked for seven years as a teacher of Latin, Greek and ancient history at Whitley Bay High School in an old mining town in County Durham . He then returned to Cambridge and received his doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on ancient Corinth . He completed his habilitation in 1997 at the Institute of Archeology at the University of Gothenburg . In 1991/92 he was a research assistant at the Center d'Archéologie Classique , Paris 1 ( Sorbonne ), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. From 1992 to 1998 he was a lecturer in archeology at the University of Wales at Lampeter . In 1997 Shanks was a lecturer at the Archaeological Institute in Gothenburg, which was then headed by Kristian Kristiansen .

In 1998 he was appointed professor of classical archeology at Stanford University . From 1998 to 2005 he was also an honorary professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. In 2000 he became Omar and Althea Hoskins Professor of Classical Archeology at Stanford University. There he heads the MetaMedia Lab and, since 2004, the Stanford Humanities Lab .

Along with Ian Hodder and Chris Tilley, Shanks is known as one of the most important representatives of post-process archeology . In the meantime he has turned to the so-called “symmetrical archeology”, which defines itself in opposition to “social archeology”. He also deals intensively with cybernetics and new media .

Quotes

"My archeology is a bridging field. For me, archaeologists do not discover the past; they work on what remains. Archeology is about our relationships with what is left of the past."

Fonts

  • Michael Shanks, Chris Tilley: Re-Constructing Archeology . Cambridge 1987
  • Michael Shanks, Chris Tilley: Social Theory and Archeology . Cambridge 1987.
  • Experiencing the Past: on the character of archeology . Routledge, London / New York 1991.
  • Ian Hodder , Alexandra Alexandri, Victor Buchli, John Carman, Jonathan Last, Gavin Lucas (Eds.): Interpreting Archeology: Finding Meaning in the Past . Routledge, London 1995
  • Michael Shanks, Ian Hodder: Processual, Postprocessual and Interpretive Archaeologies . In: I. Hodder, M. Shanks, A. Alexandri, V Buchli, J. Carman, J. Last, G. Lucas (Eds.): Interpreting Archeology. Finding Meaning in the Past . Routledge, London, pp. 3-29.
  • Classical Archeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline . Routledge, London, 1996.
  • Randall McGuire , Michael Shanks: The craft of archeology . In: American Antiquity 61/1, 1996, pp. 75-88.
  • Art and the Early Greek City State, an interpretive archeology . New studies in archeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999.
  • Mike Pearson, Michael Shanks: Theater / Archeology . 2001
  • Michael Shanks, Jeffrey Schnapp, Matthew Tiews: Archaeologies of the Modern . (Special edition of Modernism / Modernity 2004).
  • Three rooms: archeology and performance . In: Journal of Social Archeology 4, 2004, pp. 147-180.
  • Ian Hodder, Mark P. Leone, Reinhard Bernbeck, Silvia Tomásková, Patricia A. McAnany, Stephen Shennan , Colin Renfrew, Michael Shanks: Revolution fulfilled? Symbolic and Structural Archeology, a Generation on . Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17/2, pp. 199-228.
  • Symmetrical Archeology . In: World Archeology 39/4, 2007, 589-596.
  • Symmetrical Archeology . In: Complutum 18, 2007.
  • Postprocessual archeology and after . In: C. Chippindale, H. Maschner (Ed.): Handbook of Archaeological Method and Theory . Altamira, Walnut Creek 2007.
  • William L. Rathje , Michael Shanks, Christopher Witmore (Eds.): Archeology in the Making: Conversations Through a Discipline. Routledge, New York 2013

literature

  • Nils Müller-Scheessel: Archeology is nothing if it is not critique - On the understanding of archeology by Michael Shanks and Christopher Tilley In: MKH Eggert, U. Veith (Ed.): Theories in archeology: For discussion in English . Münster 1998, pp. 243-273 ISBN 3-89325-594-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Resumé - Michael Shanks. Stanford University October 6, 2009, archived from the original October 19, 2009 ; accessed on November 28, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
personal data
SURNAME Shanks, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne