Communities and knowledge production in archaeology / edited by Julia Roberts, Kathleen Sheppard, Ulf R. Hansson and Jonathan R. Trigg. - xvii, 250 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. - Social archaeology and material worlds . - Social archaeology and material worlds .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How archaeological communities think: rethinking Ludwik Fleck's concept of the thought-collective according to the case of Serbian archaeology / Monika Milosavljević -- Circular 316: archaeology, networks, and the Smithsonian Institution, 1876-79 / James E. Snead -- "More for beauty than for rarity": the key role of the Italian antiquarian market in the inception of American classical art collections during the late nineteenth century / Francesca de Tomasi -- Digging dilettanti: the first Dutch excavation in Italy, 1952-1958 / Arthur Weststeijn and Laurien de Gelder -- A romance and a tragedy: Antonín Salač and the French School at Athens / Thea De Armond -- Geographies of networks and of knowledge production: the case of Oscar Montelius and Italy / Anna Gustavsson -- "More feared than loved": interactional strategies in late nineteenth-century Classical archaeology--the case of Adolf Furtwängler -- / Ulf R. Hansson -- When the modern was too new: the permeable clusters of Hanna Rydh / Elisabeth Arwill-Nordbladh -- "Trying desperately to make myself an Egyptologist": James Breasted's early scientific network / Kathleen Sheppard -- Frontier gentleman's club: Felix Kanitz and Balkan archaeology / Vladimir Mihajlović -- Re-examining the contributions of Dr. Robert Toope to knowledge in later seventeenth century Britain: was he more than just "Dr. Took"? / Jonathan R. Trigg.

This volume investigates the collaborative effort in the creation of knowledge in antiquarianism and archaeology. In eleven case studies ranging from early modern antiquarianism to modern archaeology, various aspects of interaction and dialogue within scholarly communities in Europe and North America are critically examined.

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Communication in archaeology--History.
Social archaeology
Knowledge, Sociology of
Knowledge, Sociology of
Social archaeology


History

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