Seeing voices and changing relationships: Film, archaeological reporting, and the landscape of people in Sphakia

Authors
Citation
L. Nixon, Seeing voices and changing relationships: Film, archaeological reporting, and the landscape of people in Sphakia, AM J ARCHAE, 105(1), 2001, pp. 77-97
Citations number
124
Categorie Soggetti
Archeology
Journal title
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY
ISSN journal
00029114 → ACNP
Volume
105
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
77 - 97
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9114(200101)105:1<77:SVACRF>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
Film is an excellent way of showing human interaction with the landscape, a s anthropologists and, more recently, archaeologists have realized. Film al so raises other issues that are important to a reflexive and interactive ar chaeology: the relationship between archaeological investigators and local people, the desirability of reporting in various ways to various constituen cies, the use of film as an appropriate way of reporting, and the value of people's responses to film for further archaeological analysis. Here the is sues are discussed int he context of making a film about the Sphakia Survey , an archaeological field survey in southwestern Crete.