ABSTRACT
Museums and Archaeology brings together a wide, but carefully chosen, selection of literature from around the world that connects museums and archaeology. Part of the successful Leicester Readers in Museum Studies series, it provides a combination of issue- and practice-based perspectives. As such, it is a volume not only for students and researchers from a range of disciplines interested in museum, gallery and heritage studies, including public archaeology and cultural resource management (CRM), but also the wide range of professionals and volunteers in the museum and heritage sector who work with archaeological collections.
The volume’s balance of theory and practice and its thematic and geographical breadth is explored and explained in an extended introduction, which situates the readings in the context of the extensive literature on museum archaeology, highlighting the many tensions that exist between idealistic ‘principles’ and real-life ‘practice’ and the debates that surround these. In addition to this, section introductions and the seminal pieces themselves provide a comprehensive and contextualised resource on the interplay of museums and archaeology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|140 pages
Archaeological collections
section I, Section 1|25 pages
Curation of archaeological remains
chapter Chapter 3|8 pages
Archaeological curation in the twenty-first century
section I, Section 2|27 pages
Archaeological archives
section I, Section 3|10 pages
Documentation, identification, and authentication of archaeological collections
chapter Chapter 7|9 pages
Inventory and global management in archaeology
section I, Section 4|40 pages
Museum care, conservation, and restoration of archaeological objects
section I, Section 5|33 pages
Archaeology collections research
chapter Chapter 10|18 pages
Gristhorpe Man
part II|124 pages
Archaeology, Ethics, and the Law
section II, Section 1|48 pages
Legal and ethical dimensions of archaeological museum collecting and collections
chapter Chapter 13|32 pages
The revolution in US museums concerning the ethics of acquiring antiquities
section II, Section 2|35 pages
Repatriation and reburial of archaeological museum collections
chapter Chapter 15|26 pages
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in its first decade
section II, Section 3|37 pages
Museums and the care and display of ancient human remains
part III|351 pages
Interpreting the archaeological past
section III, Section 1|104 pages
Critical and political perspectives on museum representations of the archaeological past and of archaeology
chapter Chapter 19|15 pages
Speaking for the past in the present
chapter Chapter 21|20 pages
Prehistory, identity, and archaeological representation in Nordic museums
chapter Chapter 22|16 pages
Is it enough to make the main characters female?
section III, Section 2|33 pages
Archaeological site museums
chapter Chapter 23|10 pages
The Jorvik Viking Centre
section III, Section 3|14 pages
New archaeology museum architecture
section III, Section 4|10 pages
Designing archaeology displays
chapter Chapter 28|9 pages
The Port Royal Project
section III, Section 5|70 pages
Teaching and learning through museum archaeology
chapter Chapter 30|15 pages
Interaction or tokenism?
chapter Chapter 31|13 pages
The redisplay of the Alexander Keiller Museum, Avebury, and the National Curriculum in England
chapter Chapter 32|9 pages
Roman boxes for London's schools
chapter Chapter 33|20 pages
Translating archaeology for the public
section III, Section 6|114 pages
Public engagement in, and perceptions of, museum archaeology
