Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: In Deep Past -Deep Futures Felix Riede favourably raises the questions of how the humanities, particularly archaeology and heritage studies, can meet the planetary challenges of the Anthropocene: the time when humans have crossed over from being a mainly cultural actor to becoming a geological one.At one level it seems that Riede shares Haraway's (2016:100) concerns 'to make the Anthropocene as short/thin as possible and to culti vate with each other in every way imaginable epochs to come that can replenish refuge'.This according to Riede is to be achieved through archaeological storytelling across the subject's internal divides, with a particular 'palaeo' element in order to engage with the emerging field of the Environmental Humanities.Archaeology, as implied in the heading of the paper, supplies the building blocks of Riede's Deep Pasts and Deep Futures.Palaeoarchaeology in the Riede version mainly seems to contribute to baseline studies on climate, ecology, past societal collapse and heritage studies with reflections on nationalism and identity (local, national and so forth).As Riede's figure 1 suggests, such studies would focus on the shared temporal window in which shallow and deep time disciplines meet.That is of course all good and well, but Riede seems to skim lightly past significant parts of the knowledge genealogies of the Environmental Humanities.This field of research -which has summoned its powers in the
Source: Current Swedish Archaeology
DOI: 10.37718/csa.2018.05
Author: Christina Fredengren
Institution: Stockholm University
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3087736063