Article ID: CBB001213319

The Dreams of Archaeology (2012)

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Warwick, Alexandra (Author)


Journal of Literature and Science
Volume: 5, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 83-97
Publication date: 2012
Language: English


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special section, “The Nineteenth Century Archaeological Imagination”

Denon's comment makes explicit what is registered in the others: the inadequacy of empirical observation in the comprehension of archaeological sites, and the inevitability, even the necessity, of recourse to the dream rather than to the deliberately observed reality. The pull of the poetic away from the empirical is apparent: in Denon, Layard, Carter and many others the moments of doubt about reality are breaks in what are often long, dense and prosaic catalogues of distances travelled, buckets of earth removed, dimensions of objects measured and difficulties in obtaining labour and transport.

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Authors & Contributors
Canadelli, Elena
Dyson, Stephen L.
Gänger, Stefanie
Gere, Cathy
Goodrum, Matthew R.
Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane
Journals
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Journal of Literature and Science
Journal of the History of Collections
History and Anthropology
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
Museum History Journal
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania
University of California, Berkeley
Duckworth
Hermann
Oxford University Press
Yale University Press
Concepts
Archaeology
Artifacts
Science and culture
Museum and exhibit catalogs
Museums
Collectors and collecting
People
Broca, Paul
Confucius
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
20th century
16th century
17th century
Places
Europe
Great Britain
United States
Chile
Paris (France)
Mexico
Institutions
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
British Museum
Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences (Iowa, U.S.)
Bureau of American Ethnology (Smithsonian Institution)
University of Padua
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