Garbage and (Non)humans

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Garbage and (Non)humans

Original language description

For archaeology, garbage represents one of the most viable links between the present and the past. The strength of this link stems from the fact that humans always produce material waste, this waste is almost ubiquitous, and carries rich information about social life. Therefore, garbage of different age located in various places can be approached with a similar methodology to elucidate the life of humans. Since Rathje?s classic garbological studies, however, theoretical positions have diversified. Garbage became not only source of information about human behavior but also meaningful action, agency, global condition, materiality, or ?life of things? themselves. While some archaeologists have been moving away from artifacts or things to texts, social geographers and anthropologists have been moving in the opposite direction discovering the potential of materiality and things for understanding humans and emerging forms of life, sociality, and humanity. At the same time, the development of

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

M - Conference organization

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Event location

Plzeň

Event country

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Event starting date

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Event ending date

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Total number of attendees

50

Foreign attendee count

45

Type of event by attendee nationality

EUR - Evropská akce