Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Sarah Surface-Evans is Senior Archaeologist at the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction

Sarah Surface-Evans, A. E. Garrison, and Kisha Supernant



Part I: Imagining Timescapes: Invoking Haunting, Memory, and Nostalgia



Chapter 1. Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating across Timescapes and between Worldviews

April M. Beisaw



Chapter 2. Material Memories: Interpreting Souvenirs and Heirlooms in the Archaeological Record

Erica Begun



Chapter 3. Journeys through Space and Time: Materiality, Social Memory, and Community at the City of David

Heather Van Wormer



Part II: Confronting Lingering Specters



Chapter 4. Recognizing Ghosts and Haunting in the Rural Midwest: Finding Community, Identity, and Wisdom in the Past

P. M. W. Lawton



Chapter 5. The Unwilling Student and the Ghost of Physical Anthropology: Public Perceptions of the Ethics of Physical Anthropology

Nicole M. Burt



Chapter 6. From Haunted to Haunting: Métis Ghosts in the Past and Present

Kisha Supernant



Part III: Identifying Ghosts within the Capitalist Landscapes of Late Modernity



Chapter 7. Rain on the Scarecrow, Blood on the Plow: Haunting, Trauma, and the Cruelty of the Agrarian Dream

Lilian Brislen



Chapter 8. Boneyard Quiet: A Ghost Story

A. E. Garrison



Chapter 9. Traumascapes: Progress and the Erasure of the Past

Sarah Surface-Evans



Chapter 10. Brickwork, Capitalism, Collective Memory, and the Commons

Brigitte H. Bechtold



Epilogue: Ghosts, Haunting, and Refusals to Erasure

Kisha Supernant, April M. Beisaw, A. E. Garrison, and Sarah Surface-Evans



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