Archives, Ancestors, Practices : : Archaeology in the Light of its History / / ed. by Jarl Nordbladh, Nathan Schlanger.
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, th...
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
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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