Antiquarianisms : contact, conflict, comparison / edited by Benjamin Anderson and Felipe Rojas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Benjamin, editor.

Rojas, Felipe, 1975- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Joukowsky Institute publication ; 8.

Joukowsky Institute publications ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Archaeology--Philosophy--History.

Archaeology.

Antiquarians--History.

Antiquarians.

Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Cross-cultural studies.

Antiquities.

Historiography--Cross-cultural studies.

Historiography.

Antiquities--Collection and preservation.

Archaeology--Philosophy.

History.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Havertown, PA : Oxford Books, on behalf of the Joukowsky Institute, 2017.

Summary:

Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between "indigenous" and "colonial" archaeologies has obscured the intense and dynamic interaction between these seemingly different endeavours. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the Mediterranean and the Americas. Both regions host robust pre-modern antiquarian traditions that have continued to develop during periods of colonialism. In both regions, moreover, colonial encounters have been mediated by the antiquarian practices and preferences of European elites. The two regions also exhibit salient differences. For example, Europeans claimed the "antiquities" of the eastern Mediterranean as part of their own, "classical," heritage, whereas they perceived those of the Americas as essentially alien, even as they attempted to understand them by analogy to the classical world. These basic points of comparison and contrast provide a framework for conjoint analysis of the emergence of hybrid or cross-bred antiquarianisms. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is a human universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: For a more capacious history of archaeology / Benjamin Anderson and Felipe Rojas

Comparison and its limits

Archaeophilia : a diagnosis and ancient case studies / Felipe Rojas

The virtues of oblivion : Africa and the people without antiquarianism / Alfredo González-Ruibal

Contact in the Americas

Las relaciones mediterratlánticas: comparative antiquarianism and everyday archaeologies in Castile and Spanish America, 1575-1586 / Byron Ellsworth Hamann

Ancient artifice : the production of antiquity and the social roles of ruins in the heartland of the Inca empire / Steve Kosiba

Inventing the antiquities of new Spain : Motolinía and the Mexican antiquarian traditions / Giuseppe Marcocci

Contact in Ottoman lands

Rivaling Elgin : Ottoman governors and archaeological agency in the Morea / Emily Neumeier

"That we trusted not to Arab notions of archaeology" : reading the grand narrative Against the grain / Eva-Maria Troelenberg

Forgetting Athens / Benjamin Anderson

Not for lumpers only / Peter Miller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Antiquarianisms

ISBN:

9781785706844

1785706845

OCLC:

973919406

Publisher Number:

40027346630

99972578432