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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 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.
Sommario
- Introduction: Museum Archaeology
- A. Collecting, Categorizing, and Challenging Histories
- 1: Géraldine Delley and Nathan Schlanger: Recovering the History of Archaeology in Museums
- 2: Cressida Fforde, Jilda Andrews, Edward Halealoha Ayau, Madalyn Grant, Laurajane Smith, and Paul Turnbull: Emotion, Affective Practice, and the Taking of Indigenous Ancestral Remains
- 3: Cressida Fforde, Jilda Andrews, Edward Halealoha Ayau, Laurajane Smith, and Paul Turnbull: Emotion and the Return of Ancestors: Repatriation as Affective Practice
- B. Contemporary Agencies of Curation and Communities of Practice
- 4: Donna Yates and Emiline Smith: Museums and the Market: Passive Facilitation of the Illicit Trade in Antiquities
- 5: Marcia Bezerra and Luzia Gomes Ferreira: Affective Museums: The practice of Collecting Archaeological Artefacts in the Brazilian Amazon
- 6: Laura Osorio Sunnucks: De-centring Museums in Indigenous Community Engagement: Contemporary Maya Art, Thought, and Archaeological collections
- 7: Abigail Hunt and Tom Kitchen: Enabled Archaeology in the Field, in Museums, and the Visitor Experience
- 8: Jessica S. Johnson and Brian Michael Lione: Conservation after Conflict: Rebuilding A Heritage Community in Iraq
- C. Locating Museums and Collections
- 9: Georgios Papaioannou: Site Museums and Archaeology
- 10: Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann: Contested Heritage and Absent Objects: Archaeological Representation at Ghana's Forts and Castles
- 11: S. Terry Childs: Finding Space to Store Archaeological Collections: Challenges and Progress in the United States
- 12: George Okello Abungu: Victims or Victors: Universal Museums and the Debate on Return and Restitution, Africa's Perspective
- D. Alternative Materialities: Beyond Finds
- 13: Gail Boyle: Unlocking the Potential of Archaeological Archives
- 14: Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye: Museum Replicas: Recovering the Work of Making Plaster Casts of Pre-Columbian Art
- 15: Stephanie Klamm: Photographic Practices in Museum Archaeology
- 16: John Kannenberg: Listening to Archaeology Museums
- E. Fieldwork in the Museum
- 17: Simon Holdaway, Josh Emmitt, and Rebecca Phillipps: Recreating Context for Museum Collections Using Digital Technologies as a Form of Curation
- 18: James L. Flexner: Ethnographic Collections and Archaeological Analysis
- 19: Patrick Sean Quinn: Scientific Investigation of Museum Objects: Planning, Analysis, and Wider Impact
- 20: Barbara Wills: Conservation and the Care of Human Remains in Museums
- F. Exhibitionary Cultures
- 21: Siyu Wang and Kan Hang: Museums and Archaeological Exhibitions: History, Institution and Reality in China
- 22: Paul Collins: Telling stories at the Ashmolean Museum: An Ancient Middle East gallery for the Twenty-First Century?
- 23: Karen Exell: The Archaeology of Qatar Gallery at the National Museum of Qatar
- 24: Duygu Tarkan and Syda Çetin: Representing Field Practices in Display: The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük
- 25: Gertrude A. M. Eyifa-Dzidzienyo: Archaeology Displays in Universities: The Role of Museums and Archaeology Displays in Ghana
- G. Expanding and Transcending the Museum: Social Justice and Digital Frontiers
- 26: Paolo Del Vesco: Engaging Contemporary Social Issues in the Museum Through Archaeological Collections
- 27: Daniel Pett: Transcending and Expanding the Walls of the Museum: Digital Pivot, Digital by Default, Digital Transformation
- 28: Ville Rohiola and Jutta Kuitunen: Cooperative Platforms for Curating and Managing Digitally Recorded Finds Data: Metal-detecting and FindSampo in Finland
Info autore
Alice Stevenson is an Associate Professor of Museum Studies at UCL Institute of Archaeology. She has previously held positions as Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology in London and Researcher in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Her specialist area of expertise is Egyptian archaeology collections and she has led the major research projects 'Artefacts of Excavation' and 'Egypt's Dispersed Heritage'.
Riassunto
This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collections. It 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.
