Archives, Ancestors, Practices : : Archaeology in the Light of its History / / ed. by Jarl Nordbladh, Nathan Schlanger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Auat, Luis Alejandro,; Barbanera, Marcello,; Bentz, Emma,; Bergman, Jan,; Brather, Sebastian,; Ceserani, Giovanna,; Díaz-Andreu, Margarita,; Eberhardt, Gisela,; Eickhoff, Martijn,; Evans, Christopher,; Halbertsma, Ruurd B.,; Hinsley, Curtis M.,; Immonen, Visa,; Kaeser, Marc-Antoine,; Martins, Ana Cristina,; Martínez, Ana Teresa,; Micale, Maria Gabriella,; Murray, Tim,; Nordbladh, Jarl,; Platonova, Nadezhda Igorevna,; Price, Megan,; Reyero, Susana González,; Rodríguez, Arturo Ruiz,; Rosa, José Farrujia De La,; Ruiz, Juan Pedro Bellón,; Schlanger, Nathan,; Sommer, Ulrike,; Taavitsainen, Jussi-Pekka,; Taboada, Constanza,; Verhart, Leo,; Vizcaíno, Sánchez,; Walter, Christine,; Wilcox, David R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Nordbladh, Jarl,; Schlanger, Nathan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

In line with the resurgence of interest in the history of archaeology manifested over the past decade, this volume aims to highlight state-of-the art research across several topics and areas, and to stimulate new approaches and studies in the field. With their shared historiographical commitment, the authors, leading scholars and emerging researchers, draw from a wide range of case studies to address major themes such as historical sources and methods; questions of archaeological practices and the practical aspects of knowledge production; ‘visualizing archaeology’ and the multiple roles of iconography and imagery; and ‘questions of identity’ at local, national and international levels.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- General Introduction: Archaeology in the Light of its Histories -- Part I : SOURCES AND METHODS FOR THE HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY -- 1. Biography as Microhistory: The Relevance of Private Archives for Writing the History of Archaeology -- 2. From Distant Shores: Nineteenth-Century Dutch Archaeology in European Perspective -- 3. The Hemenway Southwestern Archaeological Expedition, 1886–1889: A Model of Inquiry for the History of Archaeology -- 4. The Phenomenon of Pre-Soviet Archaeology. Archival Studies in the History of Russian Archaeology – Methods and Results -- 5. Prehistoric Archaeology in the ‘Parliament of Science’, 1845–1900 -- Part II : ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICE -- 6. Wilamowitz and Stratigraphy in 1873: A Case Study in the History of Archaeology’s ‘Great Divide’ -- 7. Methodological Reflections on the History of Excavation Techniques -- 8. ‘More than a Village’. On the Medieval Countryside as an Archaeological Field of Study -- 9. Amateurs and Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. The Case of the Oxford ‘Antiquarian and Grocer’ H.M.J. Underhill (1855–1920) -- 10. Revisiting the ‘Invisible College’: José Ramón Mélida in Early Twentieth-Century Spain -- 11. Between Sweden and Central Asia. Practising Archaeology in the 1920s and 1930s -- 12. Model Excavations: ‘Performance’ and the Three-Dimensional Display of Knowledge -- Part III : VISUALISING ARCHAEOLOGY -- 13. The Impossible Museum: Exhibitions of Archaeology as Reflections of Contemporary Ideologies -- 14. Towards a More ‘Scientific’ Archaeological Tool: The Accurate Drawing of Greek Vases between the End of the Nineteenth and the First Half of the Twentieth Centuries -- 15. European Images of the Ancient Near East at the Beginnings of the Twentieth Century -- 16. Weaving Images. Juan Cabré and Spanish Archaeology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century -- 17. Frozen in Time: Photography and the Beginnings of Modern Archaeology in the Netherlands -- Part IV : QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY -- 18. Choosing Ancestors: The Mechanisms of Ethnic Ascription in the Age of Patriotic Antiquarianism (1815–1850) -- 19. Archaeology, Politics and Identity. The Case of the Canary Islands in the Nineteenth Century -- 20. The Wagner Brothers: French Archaeologists and Origin Myths in Early Twentieth-Century Argentina -- 21. Language, Nationalism and the Identity of the Archaeologists: The Case of Juhani Rinne’s Professorship in the 1920s -- 22. Protohistory at the Portuguese Association of Archaeologists: A Question of National Identity? -- 23. Making Spain Hispanic. Gómez-Moreno and Iberian Archaeology -- 24. Virchow and Kossinna. From the Science-Based Anthropology of Humankind to the Culture-Historical Archaeology of Peoples -- 25. Dutch Archaeology and National Socialism -- Index