Popular Receptions of Archaeology : : Fictional and Factual Texts in 19th and Early 20th Century Britain / / Susanne Duesterberg.
Popular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon: Focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, Egyptian mummies, and the ruin complex Great Zimbabwe in fictional and factual texts, Susanne Duesterberg analyses the popular reception of archaeology in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. She...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Historische Lebenswelten in populären Wissenskulturen/History in Popular Cultures ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (572 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- PART I: Preliminaries
- 1. Notions of Identity
- 2. Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3. The Genesis of a Popular Archaeological Discourse in Britain
- PART II: Popular Receptions of Archaeology
- 4. Archaeology as a Space of Ambivalence
- 5. Heinrich Schliemann's Troy as the most familiar strangeness
- 6. The Mummy as the less familiar strangeness
- 7. The Mummy and Great Zimbabwe as the most unfamiliar strangeness
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index