Landscape as Archive addresses the practice of what Henk Slager calls the para-archive, provoking affective ways of thinking and making that have the potential for new intersubjective relations to manifest between the human and the world. The archaeological tropes of excavation and stratigraphy speak to the discipline’s historic concern for the extraction and archiving of artefacts, including human remains, from the past. However, to think of the landscape-as-archive is to orient our attention to the surface, and to the archaeology of the present. The contributors to this Field Guide encourage us to slip between different temporalities in order to be fully conscious.

The text is response to Dr Gina Wall's and Alex Hale's work in Practicing Landscape: Field Guide #2 'Landscape as Archive'. The text considers ideas of loss and hauntology, discusses burial customs and puts forward ideas about taking refuge in the oracle of the dead, and proposes an intercultural reading of these practices alongside a critical response to Wall's and Hale's work