Life-writing in the history of archaeology : : critical perspectives / / Clare Lewis, Gabriel Moshenska, editors.
Life-writing is a vital part of the history of archaeology, and a growing field of scholarship within the discipline. Travels and adventures of the 'great archaeologists' have generated centuries-worth of bestselling books that, in turn, shaped the public perception of archaeology. The liv...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (410 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I, Critical perspectives. 1 Biography in science studies and the historiography of archaeology: Some methodological guidelines ; 2 A plea for 'higher criticism' in disciplinary history: Life-writing sources in the history of German-speaking Egyptology ; 3 Toward a prosopography of archaeology from the margins ; 4 Crafting an institution, reshaping a discipline: Intellectual biography, the archive and philanthropic culture ; 5 An epistolary corpus: Beyond the margins of 'official' archives, T.E. Peet's First World War correspondence ; 6 Archaeology, social networks and lives: 'Dig writing' and the history of archaeology
- Part II, Sources and networks. 7 The accidental linguist: Herbert Thompson's contribution to Egyptian language studies traced through his archive ; 8 Margerie Venables Taylor (1881-1963): An unsung heroine of Roman Britain? ; 9 Father Alfred-Louis Delattre (1850-1932) versus Paul Gauckler (1866-1911): The struggle to control archaeology at Carthage at the turn of the twentieth century ; 10 Hugh Falconer: botanist, palaeontologist, controversialist ; 11 Personal and professional networks in early nineteenth-century Egyptology: The letters of Conrad Leemans to Thomas Pettigrew ; 12 Life-writing Vere Gordon Childe from secret surveillance files
- Part III, Reflections on practice. 13 Alternative narratives in the history of archaeology: Exploring diaries as a form of reflexivity ; 14 Archaeologists, curators, collectors and donors: reflecting on the past through archaeological lives ; 15 The ghosts of Mary Ann Severn Newton: Grief, an imagined life and (auto)biography.