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Performance and display at the first meeting of the British Archaeological Association, Canterbury, 1844

Moshenska, G; (2017) Performance and display at the first meeting of the British Archaeological Association, Canterbury, 1844. World Archaeology , 49 (2) pp. 226-236. 10.1080/00438243.2016.1274236. Green open access

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Abstract

The congress of the British Archaeological Association in Canterbury in September 1844 was the first archaeological conference in Britain. This paper examines the visual practices of performance and display incorporated within the congress, focusing on three events: a trip to watch a barrow excavation; a visit to the Faussett collection of antiquities; and an unrolling of an Egyptian mummy. Through an analysis of these events the paper examines the ways in which members of the nascent British archaeological community in the early Victorian era learned how to observe archaeology within the correct social, intellectual and spatial frames.

Type: Article
Title: Performance and display at the first meeting of the British Archaeological Association, Canterbury, 1844
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2016.1274236
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2016.1274236
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in the World Archaeology on 07/02/2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00438243.2016.1274236.
Keywords: History of archaeology; public archaeology; public understanding of science; visual culture.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
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/1542320
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