The End (and After) in Ethnographic Worlds

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Notes

1 The term has also been translated as ‘over-liminal’ (Bauman 2014) and can also mean ‘over the threshold’.

2 ‘President Donald J. Trump has denied the science of climate change many times in recent years, calling it a “con job” and a “myth,” and even suggesting the concept was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” When he was a presidential candidate, Trump said he did not believe climate change is a significant threat, and that he doubted humans contributed to it. “I consider climate change to be not one of our big problems,” he said in 2015’ (Quoted from ‘Trump on the Issues’, https://www.cfr.org/interactives/campaign2016/donald-trump/on-energy-and-climate, accessed 15 May 2018).

3 Within archaeology, the ruins of capitalism, modernity and industrial landscapes have given rise to its own subdiscipline, an ‘archaeology of the recent past’ or ‘contemporary archaeology’, concerning these same issues and often in a framework of human devastation and anthropogenic change (e.g. González-Ruibal 2008; Harrison & Schofield 2010; Pétursdóttir 2017).