Oh, those troublesome bones.
As sensitive archaeologists, we are told that we are to avoid depictions of skeletons, particularly skulls. This is partially a reaction to a tendency to the macabre in our field, but it is primarily because several of the culture groups we study do not like having granny’s bones up on the [...]
“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.” Calvino, [...]
I uploaded the slides from my AAA paper to flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/colleenmorgan
I’ll upload my paper soon–I have to clean up the references a little bit.
