Butler, Beverley

The tree, the tower and the shaman - 1996

This paper, 'The tree, the Tower and the Shaman', is a bricolage of omment, analysis, critique, oral testimony and myth, the 'subject' of which is the material culture of one specific urban landscape-Claremont Road. My text explores the ways in which a study of material culture offers us an insight into the cultures of resistance that inhabited this particular space in protest against the Brotish National Roads Programme, and similarly, the implications of these findings for subsequent critiques of museology, space and 'everyday life'.

'Everyday life', landscape, material culture, museology, praxis of resistance, roads protests