Article ID: CBB889197434

Hitting Two Birds with one Stone: An Afterword on Archeology and the History of Science (2017)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Kaeser, Marc-Antoine
Bennett, Tony
Pudłocki, Tomasz
José Alberto Silva
Cameron Brinitzer
Gold, Meira
Concepts
Societies; institutions; academies
Archaeology
Museums
Anthropology
Field work
History of science, as a discipline
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
France
Egypt
Lisbon (Portugal)
Edinburgh
Institutions
International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fitzwilliam Museum
International Archaeological Congresses (1866-2006)
Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
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