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Book Review;Our love ofgarbage;Rubbish heaps 书评;我们对垃圾的爱;成堆的垃圾 Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash. ByEdward Humes. 《垃圾学：我们对垃圾非常感兴趣》，Edward Humes著。 Although it is the buried tombs and the lost citiesthat get all the press, one of the most valuablethings that an archaeologist can dig up is rubbish.Palace murals and heroic statues record thesanitised, official version of history, but a society s garbage tells the true story of how itsmembers lived. 虽然深埋的古墓和迷失的城市占据了所有的资讯版面，但是垃圾，却是考古学家们最值得深挖的东西。宫廷壁画，英雄雕像，那些记录的都是一尘不染的东西，是历史的官方版本，但是，一个社会的垃圾讲述的却是实实在在的市民生活。 With that thought in mind, archaeologists of the future are in for a treat. The industrialsocieties of the world s developed countries are the most wasteful ever, their spoor turning upin every corner of the Earth. Almost by definition, waste is something that most peopleprefer not to think too much about. But Edward Humes, an American journalist, is fascinatedby the stuff. Garbology is his attempt to make sense of our historically unprecedentedreadiness to throw things away. 这样想来，我们确实是好好地款待了那些未来的考古学家们。因为处于工业社会的发达国家，他们制造了有史以来最多的垃圾，地球上的每个角落都有他们的足迹。很显然，大多数的人是不怎么会深思垃圾这类东西的。但是爱德华休姆斯，一位美国记者，却对垃圾如此着迷。他试图通过垃圾学，搞清楚我们为什么会及其相当之非常愿意扔东西。 | 
