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The life of Margaret Alice Murray : a woman's work in archaeology / Kathleen L. Sheppard.
Penn Museum Library PJ1064.M87 S54 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheppard, Kathleen, 1979-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Murray, Margaret Alice.
- Women Egyptologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women Egyptologists.
- Egyptologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Egyptologists.
- Women archaeologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Women archaeologists.
- Archaeologists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 267 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2013]
- Summary:
- The Life of Margaret Alice Murray: A Woman's Work in Archaeology is the first book-length biography of Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963), one of the first women to practice archaeology. Despite Murray's numerous professional successes, her career has received little attention because she has been overshadowed by her mentor, Sir Flinders Petrie. This oversight has obscured the significance of her career including her fieldwork, the students she trained, her administration of the pioneering Egyptology Department at University College London (UCL), and her published works. Kathleen L. Sheppard treats Murray as a practicing scientist with theories, ideas, and accomplishments of her own. This book analyzes the life and career of Margaret as a teacher, excavator, scholar, and popularizer of Egyptology, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, and more. Sheppard also analyzes areas outside of Murray's archaeology career, including her involvement in the suffrage movement, her work in folklore and witchcraft studies, and her life after her official retirement from UCL. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Margaret Murray's India, 1863-1894
- University College, 1894-1902
- In the field, 1902-1904
- The classroom at UCL, 1904-1935
- Suffrage and the new woman, 1904-1928
- The classroom-at-large, 1904-1935
- The witch-cult hypothesis and other adventures on the lunatic fringe, 1911-1935
- Malta, Minorca, and other archaeology, 1914-1939
- "Retirement," 1935-1963.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780739174173
- 0739174177
- OCLC:
- 846846908
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