Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? - Karen D. Vitelli

Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?

Letters from the Field 1968-1974
Buch | Softcover
194 Seiten
2023
Archaeopress (Verlag)
978-1-80327-612-0 (ISBN)
37,40 inkl. MwSt
An edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974).
Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of writing her dissertation in Athens during a coup (1968-1974). An introductory chapter provides background information to clarify references in the letters, additional new comments within the letters amplify points and events, and a final chapter sums up her post-dissertation years. The letters were written during lively times politically and socially, as well as archaeologically, in Greece and around the world. The author was often torn between immersing herself in the past and being involved in the upheavals of that present. The letters show her frequent questioning about whether to remain in archaeology or become an ‘activist,’ and how she eventually found ways to do both.

Karen D. Vitelli is Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington. A member of the Franchthi Cave Project since 1968, she published two volumes on its pottery and another on the contemporary pottery from Lerna, incorporating in both her work on experimental ceramics. She now directs the Franchthi Project. She was active in archaeological ethics, chaired related committees in both the AIA and SAA, and edited several volumes on that topic. She lives in Maine.

Chapter 1. The Background to the Letters


 


Chapter 2. Getting to Greece. Off to my First Dig, 1968


 


Chapter 3. My First Dig, Porto Cheli, 1968


 


Chapter 4. Fall Term at the American School, 1968


 


Chapter 5. Winter Term at the American School, 1969


 


Chapter 6. More Digs: Turkey and Back to Greece, 1969


 


Chapter 7. Beginning Dissertation Research, 1969-70


 


Chapter 8. Wrapping up the Dissertation Research. Nafplion 1970: April-August


 


Chapter 9. Avoiding, and Finally Starting the Dissertation, Athens 1973


 


Chapter 10. Finishing the Dissertation, during a Revolution


 


Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 244 x 173 mm
Gewicht 635 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
ISBN-10 1-80327-612-6 / 1803276126
ISBN-13 978-1-80327-612-0 / 9781803276120
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