Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First Century Museum
Part of Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context
- Author: Alice Stevenson, University College London Institute of Archaeology
- Date Published: September 2022
- availability: Not yet published - available from November 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009074377
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This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage, research, and display. Its four sections examine how ideas about the past are formed by museum assemblages: how their histories of acquisition and documentation shape interpretation, the range of materials that comprise them, the influence of their geographical framing, and the moments of remaking that might be possible. Throughout, the importance of critical approaches to interpretation is underscored, reasserting the museum as a site of active research and experiment, rather than only exhibitionary product or communicative media. It argues for a multi-directional approach to museum work that seeks to reveal the inter-relations of collection histories and which has implications not just for museum representation and documentation, but also for archaeological practice more broadly.
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'The present volume will be of great service for students of archaeology, art history, and museum studies. Stevenson offers a provocative and eloquent challenge to critically rethink the underpinnings of Egyptological museum collections, and their processes and futures.' Campbell Price, African Archaeological Review
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- Date Published: September 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009074377
- length: 75 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 6 mm
- weight: 0.16kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from November 2024
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Collecting Histories
3. Materials
4. Space and Place
5. Experimental Re-assembly
6. Concluding Remarks
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