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Course description
This course will review popular culture ideas about archaeology and studying the past and include a variety of perspectives. In popular culture, fictional archaeologists inhabit books, movies, video games, graphic novels, toys, and more. Representations of archaeologists, including “Adventurer”, “Detective”, “Caretaker”, and “Revealer of the Profound” are common. In contemporary mass media, ideas related to archaeology permeate the world around us. Current Canadian and American popular culture is overflowing with examples of our fascination with material culture and artifacts. There are literally dozens of television shows, films, and other media that have archaeology and material culture as one of their central themes. We will investigate archaeology in popular culture, folk archaeology, archaeological metaphors, and representations of the past in a wide variety of media. We will investigate and learn about the meaning of archaeology in contemporary popular culture and the role of popular culture in contemporary archaeology.

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