archaeology of garbage
type: Concept
narrower: trash as history/memory

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: trash as history/memory

history of consumption and waste
type: Concept
narrower: trash as history/memory

trash as history/memory
type: Concept
broader: history of consumption and waste
broader: archaeology of garbage
definition: Throughout the 20th century, trash has been appropriated as one of the key figures through which to contest traditional, scholarly understandings of history. The term trash, understood in its broadest sense as something deemed of no value, has been located as a telling figure, capable of highlighting all that 19th-century forms of history have too readily dismissed in their faith in objectivity, progress, and development. [Source: Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage; Trash as History/Memory]