Screen LibraryThe Oxford handbook of museum archaeology /
This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collections. It challenges the common misconception that museum archaeology is simply a set of procedures for managing and exhibiting assemblages. Instead, thi...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collections. It challenges the common misconception that museum archaeology is simply a set of procedures for managing and exhibiting assemblages. Instead, this volume advances museum archaeology as an area of reflexive research and practice, addressing the critical issues of what gets prioritized by and researched in museums, by whom, how, and why. Through 28 newly commissioned chapters, authors problematize and suggest new ways of thinking about historic, contemporary, and future relationships between archaeological fieldwork and museums, as well as the array of institutional and cultural paradigms through which archaeological enquiries are mediated. Case studies embrace not just archaeological finds, but also archival field notes, photographic media, archaeological samples, and replicas. Throughout, museum activities are put into dialogue with other aspects of archaeological practice, with the aim of situating museum work within a more holistic archaeology, one that does not privilege excavation or field survey above other aspects of disciplinary engagement. These concerns are grounded in the realities of museums internationally, including those in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania, North America, and Europe. In so doing, the common heritage sector refrain 'best practice' is not be assumed to solely emanate from developed countries or European philosophies, but will instead be considered as emerging from, and being accommodated within, local concerns and diverse museum cultures. |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 591 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780198847526 0198847521 |
| Index Number: | CC55 |
| CLC: | G268.3-62 |
| Call Number: | G268.3-62/O984 |
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Introduction: Museum Archaeology / Part A. Collecting, categorizing, and challenging histories -- Recovering the history of archaeology in museums / Emotion, affective practice, and the taking of Indigenous Ancestral Remains / Emotion and the return of ancestors: Repatriation as affective practice / Part B. Contemporary agencies of curation and communities of practice -- Museums and the market: Passive facilitation of the illicit trade in antiquities / Affective museums: The practice of collecting archaeological artefacts in the Brazilian Amazon / De-centring museums in Indigenous community engagement: Contemporary Maya art, thought, and archaeological collections / Enabled Archaeology in the field, in museums, and the visitor experience / Conservation after conflict: Rebuilding a heritage community in Iraq / Part C. Locating museums and collections -- Site museums and archaeology / Contested heritage and absent objects: Archaeological representation at Ghana's forts and castles / Finding space to store archaeological collections: Challenges and progress in the United States / Victims or victors: Universal museums and the debate on return and restitution, Africa's perspective / Part D. Alternative materialities: Beyond finds -- Unlocking the potential of archaeological archives / Museum replicas: Recovering the work of making plaster casts of pre-Columbian art / |