Connecting People and Ideas by Coltofean, Laura; Arnold, Bettina; Bartosiewicz, La?szlo?;

Long description:

This book presents new research into social networks and the various networking modes that formed during the history of archaeology in distinct geographical settings in Europe, North America, and South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The diverse range of international experts in this edited collection demonstrate that networks can be found everywhere in archaeology, making it a highly interconnected research field.

Using a wide array of examples from diverse geopolitical, cultural, and social contexts, the volume reveals how essential social networks and networking have been to the development of archaeology; to the production, transfer, exchange, and dissemination of archaeological and cross-disciplinary knowledge; and to the formation, upward mobility, barrier transcendence, research, and association of archaeological practitioners. The book is of interest to students and scholars of history of archaeology, history of science, museum studies and interdisciplinary studies.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. Social Networks and Networking in the History of Archaeology: An Introduction (Coltofean et al).- Chapter 2. In the Archive of Agda Montelius, or How to Find the People and Practices Behind a Great Man?s Work (Gustavsson).- Chapter 3. Caroline Ransom Williams and the Foundations of Egyptian Archaeology in the United States (Sheppard).- Chapter 4. The Dutch Years of F. W. Freiherr von Bissing (1922?1926): Networks, Egyptian Objects, and an Academic Persona on the Move (Eickhoff & Smith).- Chapter 5. Antiquaries and Indian Agents: ?Field Networks? of Ethnology and Archaeology in the North American Southwest, 1860?1880 (Snead).- Chapter 6. ?Lieber Freund!? Nineteenth-Century Correspondence Networks and the Early History of the Milwaukee Public Museum (Arnold).- Chapter 7. Ga?bor Szinte and the Role of Networks in Early Research on Medieval Monuments in Nineteenth-Century Transylvania (Codrea & Bodo?).- Chapter 8. Archaeological Sociability: Building Patriotic and Scientific Networks in Italy (1861?1915) (Pizzato). Chapter 9. Celticism and the Volk: Tracing the Ideas and Networks that Shaped Irish Archaeology (Whitefield).- Chapter 10. The Young Bairra?o Oleiro and the Building of an International Scientific Network (Martins).- Chapter 11. Creating Authority in South Asian Archaeology: Mortimer Wheeler, Stuart Piggott, and Archaeological Knowledge in India (Miller).- Chapter 12. Archaeology and Networks of Authorities in a State of War: The Four-Level System in Sicily (1939?1943) (Crisa?).- Chapter 13. Archaeological Learned Societies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918?1941): Changing States and Roles (Lorber).- Chapter 14. Between Two Stools: Miodrag Grbic? and the Archaeological Networks Formed Around the American and German Expeditions to Yugoslavia in the 1930s (Bandovic?).- Chapter 15. When Paradigms Meet: American and Yugoslav Archaeologists and the Neolithic in the 1960s and 1970s (Rasson).- Chapter 16. Fifty Years of Networking in Archaeozoology (Bartosiewicz).