Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure: Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Sarah Surface-Evans is Senior Archaeologist at the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office.

A. E. Garrison is Associate Professor of Sociology at Central Michigan University.

Kisha Supernant is Métis and Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta.