Moshenska, Gabriel and Lewis, Clare (Eds).
(2023)
Life-writing in the History of Archaeology.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Life-writing is a vital part of the history of archaeology, and a growing field of scholarship within the discipline. The lives of archaeologists are entangled with histories of museums and collections, developments in science and scholarship, and narratives of nationalism and colonialism into the present. In recent years life-writing has played an important role in the surge of new research in the history of archaeology, including ground-breaking studies of discipline formation, institutionalisation, and social and intellectual networks. Sources such as diaries, wills, film, and the growing body of digital records are powerful tools for highlighting the contributions of hitherto marginalised archaeological lives including many pioneering women, hired labourers and other ‘hidden hands’. This book brings together critical perspectives on life-writing in the history of archaeology from leading figures in the field. These include studies of archive formation and use, the concept of ‘dig-writing’ as a distinctive genre of archaeological creativity, and reviews of new sources for already well-known lives. Several chapters reflect on the experience of life-writing, review the historiography of the field, and assess the intellectual value and significance of life-writing as a genre. Together, they work to problematise underlying assumptions about this genre, foregrounding methodology, social theory, ethics and other practice-focused frameworks in conscious tension with previous practices.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Life-writing in the History of Archaeology |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800084506 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800084506 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084506 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2023 Text © Contributors, 2023 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2023 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Lewis, C. and Moshenska, G. (eds). 2023. Life-writing in the History of Archaeology: Critical perspectives. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800084506 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | autobiography, biography, memoir, travelogues, diaries |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10172774 |
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