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Record Nr.

UNINA9910374756903321

Autore

Roberts Julia

Titolo

Communities and knowledge production in archaeology / Julia Roberts, Ulf R. Hansson, Kathleen L.  Shepperd, Jonathan Ralph Trigg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2019

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019

ISBN

9781526134561

152613456X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Collana

Social Archaeology and Material Worlds

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 How archaeological communities think -- 2 Circular 316 -- 3 'More for beauty than for rarity' -- 4 Digging dilettanti -- 5 A romance and a tragedy -- 6 Geographies of networks and knowledge production -- 7 'More feared than loved' -- 8 When the modern was too new -- 9 'Trying desperately to make myself an Egyptologist' -- 10 Frontier gentlemen's club -- 11 Re-examining the contribution of Dr Robert Toope to knowledge in later seventeenth-century Britain -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The dynamic processes of knowledge production in archaeology and elsewhere in the humanities and social sciences are increasingly viewed as the collaborative effort of groups, clusters and communities of researchers rather than the isolated work of so-called 'instrumental' actors. Shifting focus from the individual scholar to the wider social contexts of her work and the dynamic creative processes she participates in, this volume critically examines the importance of informal networks and conversation in the creation of knowledge about the past. Engaging with theoretical approaches such as the sociology and geographies of knowledge and Actor-Network Theory (ANT), and using examples taken from different archaeologies in Europe and North America from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth century, the book



caters to a wide readership, ranging from students of archaeology, anthropology, classics and science studies to the general reader.