Reviews
The cover slogan, “Don’t sleep, don’t die, you’ll be resurrected,” looked fun, so I readily applied to receive the book. The word archaeology brings the Indiana Jones theme music to mind, and the author’s photo looks like a scene from the movie. The subject seemed fun, though the deep and vast history of archaeology made me hesitate a little. But the author’s writing, mixed with relatively recent episodes, soon gets us to sample archaeology. A prehistoric site was near the place where I lived
Artifacts from the past seem easy enough to find in history books or visit at sites and museums, but somehow they always felt remote to me. Maybe painful memories of my history grades at school made archaeology feel distant. This book slowly brings readers closer to the field and helps it feel familiar. You can tell from the cover, too: at first I noticed a peaceful, quiet city, but then I glanced over—oh no, a skull! Archaeologists find and interpret the meaning held in countless artifacts
Kang In-wook's First Encounter with the World of Archaeology. The author is a happy archaeologist who made the archaeology he dreamed of as a child his lifelong work. He is also a professor who shares fresh perspectives connecting ancient artifacts and the modern world through various media. He hopes the book will be an accessible introduction to archaeology. True to that aim, it explains what archaeology is, beyond artifacts and sites. “Time travel. A journey with no known end.” That is how
An introduction to archaeology covering its difference from history, vivid scenes from excavations, and archaeology’s place today. The most fascinating part is the paradoxes of archaeology. Time-slip stories One reason time-slip stories are popular is that they reflect a desire to escape reality through the past. They reveal our ambivalent view of earlier times. Such stories often feature either modern people with advanced knowledge in a primitive past or people escaping a dark present for a
How to Meet the Vanished Past, by Professor Kang In-wook, a familiar archaeology communicator, is a kind of introductory guide to archaeology. Professor Kang says he wrote it because Korea lacked a suitable popular book on archaeology. As he notes, his book from last year, The Origin of Everything, was closer to a history of human civilization centered on archaeology, while this book introduces archaeology itself to general readers. The first thing I noticed was its rough-grain paper cover,
The Mummy, Indiana Jones, and Tomb Raider are action movies but unlike other films, they draw our attention not only to spectacular action but also to archaeological sites and artifacts. Watching them, I always thought archaeology was a romantic field and being an archaeologist a wonderful job: pursuing knowledge while exploring. Professor Kang Inuk, author of How to Meet Lost Time, seems to have met many people with that impression. He guides general readers who know archaeology only from
I explored archaeology through the account of Kang Inuk, director of the Institute for Korean Ancient History and Archaeology and professor in the Department of History at Kyung Hee University. What I learned from How to Meet Lost Time is that archaeology and history are separate fields; what I felt is that the time of ancient artifacts and modern time are connected. We usually dream of the future, but archaeologists dream of the past. Archaeology seems a fascinating field that lets us imagine
I enjoyed the author’s previous book, The Origin of Everything. While that book tells individual stories centered on artifacts, this new one is more like an introduction to archaeology, offering a fuller view of the field. Archaeology, as the Korean term literally suggests, means thinking about and studying the ancient through artifacts. It spans art, science, history, and many other fields—almost a discipline with a thousand faces. That may be why it is so engaging: it feels like traveling
When I think of archaeology, I picture a wide-open site, with the ground dug up in places and several people sitting quietly, brushing away dirt to uncover artifacts. From discoveries in the news and films such as Indiana Jones, I had thought of archaeology as little more than searching for traces of the past, objects people used, or treasure. Aside from occasional media coverage—such as artifacts discovered at the Chuncheon Legoland site, which briefly halted development, or old Korean
#BookProvided #HowToMeetLostTime #KangInuk’sIntroductionToArchaeology #KangInuk #KimYoungSa #Humanities ⠀ ⠀ Don’t sleep, don’t die, you’ll be resurrected. An invitation to archaeology, dreaming of the past while living in the present. ⠀ The title and the two lines on the cover immediately drew me in. I was interested in archaeology but had not read much about it, and it was hard to find books for general readers rather than textbooks. I was glad to find a book that could give a clear shape to
Kang In-wook: How to Meet Lost Time
Professor Kang In-wook has long introduced archaeology, a field that feels both close and distant. This time he tells the real story of archaeology, beyond gold, treasure, or aliens. His new book, How to Meet the Vanished Past, is an introductory book and friendly guide to archaeology for general readers. It goes beyond presenting artifacts and sites: it avoids technical terms and details as much as possible so readers unfamiliar with archaeology can easily understand what the discipline is. The author describes archaeology's essence as time travel. Unlike history, which chiefly studies the past through written records, archaeology draws us into past lives by excavating and examining places and objects people actually used. A hand axe used by Homo erectus, a grain of rice left by the people of Songguk-ri who first farmed rice, and the mummy of a shaman who gave prophecies to nomadic warriors bring us face to face with lives that had been sleeping. Archaeology asks questions of artifacts that have fallen silent as fragments and seeks answers, revealing the people hidden in them and how they adapted to climate and environment. Its purpose is to reveal that they were alive. Reconstructing stories of people who lived just as we do, using the objects they left behind, is archaeology. That is why archaeologists cannot abandon their calling to dig, even while enduring disease and mosquitoes at harsh excavation sites, washing clothes in rivers and chopping firewood with an ax.
Korean title: 사라진 시간과 만나는 법
Korean author: 강인욱
Korean publisher: 김영사
ISBN-13: 9788934933946
Reviews
The cover slogan, “Don’t sleep, don’t die, you’ll be resurrected,” looked fun, so I readily applied to receive the book. The word archaeology brings the Indiana Jones theme music to mind, and the author’s photo looks like a scene from the movie. The subject seemed fun, though the deep and vast history of archaeology made me hesitate a little. But the author’s writing, mixed with relatively recent episodes, soon gets us to sample archaeology. A prehistoric site was near the place where I lived
Artifacts from the past seem easy enough to find in history books or visit at sites and museums, but somehow they always felt remote to me. Maybe painful memories of my history grades at school made archaeology feel distant. This book slowly brings readers closer to the field and helps it feel familiar. You can tell from the cover, too: at first I noticed a peaceful, quiet city, but then I glanced over—oh no, a skull! Archaeologists find and interpret the meaning held in countless artifacts
Kang In-wook's First Encounter with the World of Archaeology. The author is a happy archaeologist who made the archaeology he dreamed of as a child his lifelong work. He is also a professor who shares fresh perspectives connecting ancient artifacts and the modern world through various media. He hopes the book will be an accessible introduction to archaeology. True to that aim, it explains what archaeology is, beyond artifacts and sites. “Time travel. A journey with no known end.” That is how
An introduction to archaeology covering its difference from history, vivid scenes from excavations, and archaeology’s place today. The most fascinating part is the paradoxes of archaeology. Time-slip stories One reason time-slip stories are popular is that they reflect a desire to escape reality through the past. They reveal our ambivalent view of earlier times. Such stories often feature either modern people with advanced knowledge in a primitive past or people escaping a dark present for a
How to Meet the Vanished Past, by Professor Kang In-wook, a familiar archaeology communicator, is a kind of introductory guide to archaeology. Professor Kang says he wrote it because Korea lacked a suitable popular book on archaeology. As he notes, his book from last year, The Origin of Everything, was closer to a history of human civilization centered on archaeology, while this book introduces archaeology itself to general readers. The first thing I noticed was its rough-grain paper cover,
The Mummy, Indiana Jones, and Tomb Raider are action movies but unlike other films, they draw our attention not only to spectacular action but also to archaeological sites and artifacts. Watching them, I always thought archaeology was a romantic field and being an archaeologist a wonderful job: pursuing knowledge while exploring. Professor Kang Inuk, author of How to Meet Lost Time, seems to have met many people with that impression. He guides general readers who know archaeology only from
I explored archaeology through the account of Kang Inuk, director of the Institute for Korean Ancient History and Archaeology and professor in the Department of History at Kyung Hee University. What I learned from How to Meet Lost Time is that archaeology and history are separate fields; what I felt is that the time of ancient artifacts and modern time are connected. We usually dream of the future, but archaeologists dream of the past. Archaeology seems a fascinating field that lets us imagine
I enjoyed the author’s previous book, The Origin of Everything. While that book tells individual stories centered on artifacts, this new one is more like an introduction to archaeology, offering a fuller view of the field. Archaeology, as the Korean term literally suggests, means thinking about and studying the ancient through artifacts. It spans art, science, history, and many other fields—almost a discipline with a thousand faces. That may be why it is so engaging: it feels like traveling
When I think of archaeology, I picture a wide-open site, with the ground dug up in places and several people sitting quietly, brushing away dirt to uncover artifacts. From discoveries in the news and films such as Indiana Jones, I had thought of archaeology as little more than searching for traces of the past, objects people used, or treasure. Aside from occasional media coverage—such as artifacts discovered at the Chuncheon Legoland site, which briefly halted development, or old Korean
#BookProvided #HowToMeetLostTime #KangInuk’sIntroductionToArchaeology #KangInuk #KimYoungSa #Humanities ⠀ ⠀ Don’t sleep, don’t die, you’ll be resurrected. An invitation to archaeology, dreaming of the past while living in the present. ⠀ The title and the two lines on the cover immediately drew me in. I was interested in archaeology but had not read much about it, and it was hard to find books for general readers rather than textbooks. I was glad to find a book that could give a clear shape to
