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    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology by Díaz-Andreu, Margarita; Coltofean, Laura;

    Series: Oxford Handbooks;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 4 February 2025

    • ISBN 9780190092504
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages976 pages
    • Size 251x182x55 mm
    • Weight 1710 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 50
    • 560

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    Short description:

    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists and historians from all over the world, it covers a wide range of themes and debates, including biographical accounts of key figures, scientific techniques and archaeological fieldwork practices, institutional contexts, and the effects of religion, nationalism, and colonialism on the development of archaeology.

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    Long description:

    The Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology offers comprehensive perspectives on the origins and developments of the discipline of archaeology and the direction of future advances in the field. Written by thirty-six archaeologists, historians, and historians of science from all over the world, it covers a wide range of themes, including major debates, scientific techniques, and archaeological fieldwork practices.

    Chapters in this handbook also discuss the effect of institutional contexts on the development of archaeology, including legislative parameters and the nature of the work that takes place in museums, universities, and the management of archaeology. Other themes include the cultural and political backdrop that has affected archaeological research, from religion to nationalism and colonialism, and the social history of archaeology, with a focus on women, amateur archaeology, economics, and tourism.

    It is an excellent, broad source for anyone interested in the origins and development of the discipline.... This is a comprehensive, well-researched study that does indeed, as a whole, provide a decent history of both classical and anthropological archaeology and the antiquarian roots of those disciplines.

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    Table of Contents:

    List of contributors
    1. Introduction: Towards a multifaceted history of archaeology
    Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Laura Coltofean-Arizancu
    PART I. METHODOLOGY AND THEORY
    2. Writing the history of archaeology: a historical overview
    Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    3. Archives, oral history, and the histories of archaeology
    Ola Wolfhechel Jensen
    4. Photo Archives and the History of Archaeology
    Lucila Mallart
    5. Biographical research in the history of archaeology
    Laura Coltofean
    6. "Genius", "Precursors", and "Great (White) Men" in the history of archaeology
    Oscar Moro Abadía and Emma Lewis-Sing
    PART II. ARCHAEOLOGY AND ITS PRACTICES
    7. From Deep Holes to the Bigger Picture. A History of Methods in Archaeological Excavation
    Gisela Eberhardt
    8. Stratigraphy in the history of archaeology
    Massimo Tarantini
    9. Epistemic practices and blurred boundaries: human remains in the history of archaeology
    Nélia Dias
    10. A history of interdisciplinarity in archaeology: the three science revolutions, their implementation and impact
    Kristian Kristiansen
    11. A history of archaeology and the hard sciences
    Géraldine Delley
    PART III. OBJECTS, NETWORKS, AND MUSEUMS
    12. Collecting Antiquities in the Nineteenth Century
    Miruna Achim
    13. Museums of archaeology, museums with archaeology
    Ana Cristina Martins
    14. Objects in transit: on the theory and practices of archaeological collecting
    Fedra A. Pizzato
    15. Artefact Distribution: Networks in the History of Archaeology
    Alice Stevenson
    16. Fakes in the history of archaeology
    Irina Podgorny
    PART IV. DIVERSE ARCHAEOLOGIES
    17. The History of gender archaeology
    Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Rachel Pope
    18 A history of historical archaeology
    Charles E. Orser, Jr.
    19. The history of conflict archaeology
    Sophie M. McMillan and Tony Pollard
    20. The history of public archaeology
    Gabriel Moshenska
    21. The history of commercial archaeology: the United Kingdom and the United States
    Kenneth Aitchison
    22. The history of commercial archaeology: Europe and beyond
    Kenneth Aitchison
    PART V. INSTITUTIONS AND LEGISLATION
    23. Foreign schools in the Mediterranean in historical perspective
    Frederick Whitling
    24. International congresses in the history of archaeology
    Ulrike Sommer
    25. The origins and growth of archaeology and education
    Mike Corbishley
    26. "Governed by legislation": what laws do to archaeology
    John Carman
    27. A history of the legal battle against illicit trade in antiquities
    Francesca de Tomasi
    PART VI. IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ARCHAEOLOGY
    28. Sacred archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth century
    Bonnie Effros
    29. Archaeology, nationalism, imperialism, colonialism and the post-colonial turn
    Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    30. Archaeology and Orientalism
    Suzanne Marchand
    31. Race, racialism and racism in European archaeology, 1800--1960
    Fabian Link
    32. The political ecology of archaeology under communism
    Ludomir R. Lozny
    PART VII. ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIETY
    33. From stunning solitaires to creative clusters: women from antiquarianism to archaeology
    Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh
    34. Amateur archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    Nathalie Richard
    35. Violence, armies, and archaeological research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century
    Francisco Gracia Alonso
    36. Archaeology as leisure: a history of archaeological tourism
    Margarita Díaz-Andreu
    37. The history of the influence of free market economics on archaeology
    Peter Colin Tomlinson
    Chapter 38 Community approaches to archaeology, heritage and museums: a historical perspective
    Veysel Apaydin
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