This afterword comments on the articles gathered together in this special section of History of Science (“Disassembling Archaeology, Reassembling the Modern World”). Criticizing the consistent lack of institutional infrastructure for histories of archaeology in the history of science, the piece argues that scholars should recognize the commonality of archaeology’s practices with those of the nineteenth and twentieth century field sciences that have received more historical attention. The piece also suggests avenues to help take this approach further, such as combining expertise from historians of the biological sciences and of antiquarianism and archaeology to look at the history of the understanding of human variation and race. Finally, the afterword suggests that scholars should reconsider the idea of archaeology’s reliance on institutionalised practices, thinking about the use and re-use of material culture in more diverse and pragmatic social contexts.
...MoreArticle Melania Savino (2017) Connecting sites and Images: Archaeology as Controversial Knowledge in Modern İzmir. History of Science (pp. 364-382).
Article Christina Riggs (2017) Shouldering the Past: Photography, Archaeology, and Collective Effort at the Tomb of Tutankhamun. History of Science (pp. 336-363).
Article Stéphane Van Damme (2017) The Pillar of Metropolitan Greatness: The Long Making of Archaeological Objects in Paris (1711–2001). History of Science (pp. 302-335).
Article William Carruthers (2017) Visualizing a Monumental Past: Archeology, Nasser’s Egypt, and the Early Cold War. History of Science (pp. 273-301).
Article William Carruthers; Stéphane Van Damme (2017) Disassembling Archaeology, Reassembling the Modern World. History of Science (pp. 255-272).
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Reid, Donald Malcolm;
(2002)
Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I
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Book
Babes, Mircea;
Kaeser, Marc-Antoine;
(2009)
Archaeologists without Boundaries: Towards A History of International Archaeological Congresses (1866--2006)
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Tomasz Pudłocki;
(2016)
Konferencja naukowa z okazji 200. rocznicy powstania Towarzystwa Naukowego Krakowskiego / Scientific Conference on the Occasion of the 200th Anniversary of the Foundation of the Kraków Learned Society
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Meira Gold;
(2018)
Ancient Egypt and the Geological Antiquity of Man, 1847–1863
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Article
Cameron Brinitzer;
Etienne Benson;
(2022)
Introduction: What Is a Field? Transformations in Fields, Fieldwork, and Field Sciences since the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Bennett, Tony;
Dibley, Ben;
Harrison, Rodney;
(2014)
Introduction: Anthropology, Collecting and Colonial Governmentalities
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Allen, David Elliston;
(2001)
Naturalists and Society: The Culture of Natural History in Britain, 1700-1900
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Article
Bennett, Tony;
(2014)
Liberal Government and the Practical History of Anthropology
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Gosden, Chris;
Larson, Frances;
Petch, Alison;
(2007)
Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1884--1945
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Article
Murray, Tim;
(2005)
The Historiography of Archaeology and Canon Greenwell
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Article
Luís Tirapicos;
(2019)
Bibliographical Evolutions: From Archaeoastronomy to Astronomy in Culture
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Article
Ewelina Drzewiecka;
(2017)
Communist Anniversaries as a Symphony of Power and Science ( case study of Bulgaria) / Komunistyczne jubileusze jako symfonia władzy i nauki ( przypadek Bułgarii )
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Article
Effros, Bonnie;
(2012)
“Elle pensait comme un homme et sentait comme une femme”: Hortense Lacroix Cornu (1809--1875) and the Musée des Antiquités Nationales de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
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Chapter
Sommer, Ulrike;
(2009)
The International Congress of Prehistoric Anthropology and Archaeology and German Archaeology
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Book
José Alberto Silva;
(2019)
A Academia Real das Ciências de Lisboa (1779-1834): Ciências e hibridismo numa periferia europeia
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Book
Abt, Jeffery;
(2011)
American Egyptologist: The Life of James Henry Breasted and the Creation of His Oriental Institute
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Chapter
Kaeser, Marc-Antoine;
(2001)
L'internationalisation de la préhistoire, une manoeuvre tactique? Les consequences épistemologiques de la foundation des Congrès internationaux d'anthropologie et d'archéologie préhistoriques
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McVicker, Donald;
(2007)
Elephant Pipes and Israelite Tablets: The Controversy between the United States Bureau of Ethnography and the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences
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Article
Gill, David W. J.;
(2012)
From the Cam to the Cephissus: The Fitzwilliam Museum and Students of the British School at Athens
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Chapter
Kaeser, Marc-Antoine;
(2009)
Establishing Prehistory: The Foundation of the International Congress (1865/1866)
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