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Museums and Archaeology
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Book Description
Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers from a range of disciplines interested in museum, gallery and heritage studies, including public archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), but also the wide range of professionals and volunteers in the museum and heritage sector who work with archaeological collections.
The volume’s balance of theory and practice and its thematic and geographical breadth is explored and explained in an extended introduction, which situates the readings in the context of the extensive literature on museum archaeology, highlighting the many tensions that exist between idealistic ‘principles’ and real-life ‘practice’ and the debates that surround these. In addition to this, section introductions and the seminal pieces themselves provide a comprehensive and contextualised resource on the interplay of museums and archaeology.
Table of Contents
1. Museums and archaeology: principles, practice and debates
ROBIN SKEATES
PART ONE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS
Introduction to Part One
ROBIN SKEATES
2. Managing curated collections: the basics
LYNNE P. SULLIVAN AND S. TERRY CHILDS
3. Archaeological curation in the 21st century. Or, making sure the roof doesn’t blow off
WENDY BUSTARD
4. Primal fear: deaccessioning collections
ROBERT C. SONDERMAN
5. Archaeological archives: serving the public interest?
NICK MERRIMAN AND HEDLEY SWAIN
6. Archaeological archives in Britain and the development of the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre
HEDLEY SWAIN
7. Inventory and global management in archaeology: the example of the Neuchâtel Museum
MARIE-ODILE VAUDOU
8. Issues in practice: conservation procedures
ELIZABETH PYE
9. Caring for an Egyptian mummy and coffin
LAURA S. PHILLIPS AND LINDA ROUNDHILL
10. Gristhorpe Man: an Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined
NIGEL MELTON, JANET MONTGOMERY, CHRISTOPHER J. KNÜSEL, CATHY BATT, STUART NEEDHAM, MIKE PARKER PEARSON, ALISON SHERIDAN, CARL HERON, TIM HORSLEY, ARMIN SCHMIDT, ADRIAN EVANS, ELIZABETH CARTER, HOWELL EDWARDS, MICHAEL HARGREAVES, ROB JANAWAY, NIELS LYNNERUP, PETER NORTHOVER, SONIA O'CONNOR, ALAN OGDEN, TIMOTHY TAYLOR, VAUGHAN WASTLING AND ANDREW WILSON
11. History and surface condition of the Lewis Chessmen in the collection of the National Museums Scotland (Hebrides, late 12th–early 13th centuries)
JIM TATE, INA REICHE, FLAVIA PINZARI, JANE CLARK AND DAVID CALDWELL
PART TWO: ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHICS AND THE LAW
Introduction to Part Two
ROBIN SKEATES
12. From museum to mantelpiece: the antiquities trade in the United Kingdom
KATHRYN WALKER TUBB AND NEIL BRODIE
13. The revolution in U.S. museums concerning the ethics of acquiring antiquities
JENNIFER ANGLIM KREDER
14. Repatriation: Australian perspectives
MICHAEL GREEN AND PHIL GORDON
15. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in its first decade
JAMES A.R. NAFZIGER AND REBECCA J. DOBKINS
16. Policy and practice in the treatment of archaeological human remains in North American museum and public agency collections
FRANCIS P. MCMANAMON
17. Covering up the mummies
TIFFANY JENKINS
PART THREE: INTERPRETING THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAST
Introduction to Part Three
ROBIN SKEATES
18. Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum
MICHAEL SHANKS AND CHRISTOPHER TILLEY
19. Speaking for the past in the present: text, authority and learning in archaeology museums
ROBIN SKEATES
20. Towards presenting scientific research in archaeology museums
MARK S. COPLEY
21. Prehistory, identity, and archaeological representation in Nordic museums
JANET E. LEVY
22. Is it enough to make the main characters female? An intersectional and social semiotic reading of the exhibition Prehistories 1 at the National Historical Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
ANNIKA BÜNZ
23. The Jorvik Viking Centre: an experiment in archaeological site interpretation
PETER ADDYMAN AND ANTHONY GAYNOR
24. The new Museum of Altamira: finding solutions to tourism pressure
JOSÉ ANTONIO LASHERAS CORRUCHAGA AND PILAR FATÁS MONFORTE
25. Archaeological site museums in Latin America
HELAINE SILVERMAN
26. The new Acropolis Museum: where the visual feast trumps education
KATIE RASK
27. Development and utilization of underground space for the protection of relics in the Yang Emperor Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty
ZHILONG CHEN, PING ZHANG AND JUXI LI
28. The Port Royal Project: a case study in the use of VR technology for the recontextualization of archaeological artifacts and building remains in a museum setting
HARRY HELLING, CHARLIE STEINMETZ, ERIC SOLOMON AND BERNARD FRISCHER
29. Teaching the past in museums
JOANNE LEA
30. Interaction or tokenism? The role of hands-on activities in museum archaeology displays
JANET OWEN
31. The re-display of the Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, and the National Curriculum in England
PETER G. STONE
32. Roman boxes for London's schools: an outreach service by the Museum of London
JENNY HALL AND HEDLEY SWAIN
33. Translating archaeology for the public: empowering and engaging museum goers with the past
ALEXANDRA A. CHAN
34. Involving the public in museum archaeology
NICK MERRIMAN
35. Public archaeology and museums in Japan
DEVENA HAGGIS
36. Uncovering ancient Egypt: the Petrie Museum and its public
SALLY MACDONALD AND CATHERINE SHAW
37. Re-imagining Egypt: artefacts, contemporary art and community engagement in the museum
GEMMA TULLY
38. Working towards greater equity and understanding: examples of collaborative archaeology and museum initiatives with Indigenous peoples in North America
SARAH CARR-LOCKE AND GEORGE NICHOLAS
39. Conversations about the production of archaeological knowledge and community museums at Chunchucmil and Kochol, Yucatán, México
TRACI ARDREN
40. Us and them: who benefits from experimental exhibition making?
PETE BROWN
Editor(s)
Biography
Robin Skeates is Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University in the UK. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2005, and has served as General Editor of the European Journal of Archaeology since 2010.