📢 The #SpecialIssue on histories of labour in archaeology has dropped!
Edited by @sholleykline and @llisonmickel, and a whole host a fabulous authors! 🙏🏽
All #OpenAccess!
https://t.co/bwpfZyWCLx
@diggingellen A good friend of mine who's music I was listening to constantly during the writing of this article. I was the terrible person who encouraged them to get back into archaeology after a many years hiatus.
A fitting follow up to the other day, congrats @sholleykline and @llisonmickel and all the contributors (@LeftistDadJokes I can finally cite y’all for real) https://t.co/yVJHfCOadk
@K0Bridge @riverstepper Just read the Wikipedia plot synopsis and yeah, surprised I haven't heard more comparisons to Teorema. Only comparisons to Incredible Mr Ripley. But also not surprised because Teorema isn't really in the zeitgeist.
Already witches and magicians existed, with spells, rituals and gestures which were intended precisely to console weak humanity with the illusion of having direct power over nature – nature so familiar and yet so terrifying.
Basically, this Catholic Mass revives the oldest form of dramatic art, tragedy: an audience which participates in the action, a choir which responds to the protagonist, who conjures up the founder of the community, his life, his destiny and the inevitable catastrophe...