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Public Archaeology
Scrutinizing, in detail, the relationship between archaeology, heritage and the public, this much-needed volume explores public interest and participation in archaeology as a subject worthy of academic attention in its own right.
Examining case studies from throughout the world; from North America, Britain, Egypt and Brazil to East Africa, China and beyond, Nick Merriman focuses on two key areas: communication and interpretation, and stakeholders.
Constant reports of new discoveries, protests over the destruction of sites and debates over the return of artefacts such as the Elgin marbles or indigenous remains testify to an increasing public interest in archaeology.
For students and scholars of this archaeology, and of its relationship with the public, this will prove essential reading.
1. Diversity and Dissonance in Public Archaeology 2. Public Archaeology in the USA 3. Archaeology and Public Education in North America: View from the Beginning of the Millenniun 4. Involving the Public in Museum Archaeology 5. Uncovering Ancient Egypt: The Petrie Museum and its Public 6. Presenting Archaeology to the Public: Constructing Insights On-Site 7. Archaeology and the Media
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30 Years after the New Museology: What’s Changed?
Merriman explores what has changed since 1989 when \"The New Museology\" was published. First, of course, museum studies has become a proper academic field, with its own set of research questions. Now there are 78 embracing museum, gallery and heritage studies, producing hundreds of postgraduate students each year, and scores of PhDs. This has been accompanied by an explosion of publications with perspectives from art history, archaeology, history, sociology, anthropology, geography, natural sciences, architecture, tourism, and so on. Through this was have had 30 years of people entering the museum profession who were versed in the critical language of museum studies, and so we have had a generation of people who have begun to bring critical perspectives into what is otherwise a fairly conservative field.
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Involving the public in museum archaeology
Museums are a significant and powerful vehicle for the public construction of the past and for public involvement in archaeology. For much of their history, archaeological museums have been relatively inward-looking and have tended to serve the needs of the academic discipline of archaeology over and above the needs of the wider public. This chapter explores some of the initiatives that are being undertaken in the UK, and argues that some of them represent a new way forward for a more publicly oriented concept of archaeology as a discipline which balances the former overemphasis on the needs of the academic community and 'posterity'. Museums are powerful media of representation because they deal with the very material on which claims to identity and truth rest. Many museums have moved beyond the object to use the Internet to create a virtual information resource.
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Archaeological archives
This chapter argues that such a limited view of the public interest is inadequate as it leads to a lack of appreciation for, and interest in, archaeological archives amongst today's public, which in turn leads to their low use, neglect, and underfunding. Archaeology has always been a fieldwork-based discipline that has generated records and finds as a result of its investigations. By the early 1980s, there was an apparent awareness of the problems created for museums by the growth in rescue archaeology, a realization of the importance of the archives held by museums and a system in place to assist with costs of curation. In the early 1990s, the virtual monopoly held by regional units to undertake archaeological work in 'their' areas began to be broken down by 'competitive tendering' or contract archaeology, whereby different units were invited to tender for a particular project.
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