On containers: A forum. Introduction

Andrew Shryock · Daniel Lord Smail

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This forum, involving anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, lays out the theoretical groundwork for a deep history of the container. By isolating its contents from transaction, and by enabling the manipulation of time, the container serves as an engine of history.

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