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Persistent Memories: Pyramiden - A Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic - Hardcover

Bjerk, Hein B.; Olsen, Bjorar

 
9788251924368: Persistent Memories: Pyramiden - A Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 8251924367 ISBN 13: 9788251924368
Verlag: Tapir Academic Press, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

In 1998, the Russian Arctic Coal Company decided to end more than 50 years of continuous activity in Pyramiden, in the High Arctic archipelago of Norwegian Svalbard. The remarkably abrupt abandonment left behind a mining town devoid of humans, but it was still filled with items constituting a modern industrial settlement. Today, the well-equipped Pyramiden survives as a conspicuous Soviet-era ghost town in pristine Arctic nature. Based on fieldwork studies, Persistent Memories examines how people lived and coped in this marginal town. The book is also concerned with Pyramiden's post-human biography and the way the site provokes more general reflections on possessions, heritage, and memory. Challenging the traditional scholarly hierarchy of text over images, this book stands out by using art photography as a means to address these issues and to mediate the contemporary archaeology of Pyramiden.

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Verlag
Tapir Academic Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
8251924367
ISBN 13 
9788251924368
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
216
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