Archaeological Curatorship

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Explores the philosophies, approaches, and practices of museums that acquire and hold the material culture of the ancient, medieval, and post-medieval past, in light of new perspectives in the last two decades of the ways the past can be experienced both by archaeologists and by the general public. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780718512989
  • Publisher: Leicester University Press
  • Publication date: 6/1/1996

Table of Contents

General preface to series
List of plates
List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: people, archaeology and museums 1
1 Origins: museums and collections to 1960 7
2 Developments between 1960 and 1990 31
3 Archaeology, museums and the law 49
4 Ethics and politics 57
5 The formation of the museum achive 67
6 Approaches to storage 88
7 Issues in conservation 103
8 Documentation and research 113
9 Our public 133
10 Exhibiting archaeology 143
11 Open-air sites 170
12 Reaching out into the community 181
13 Futures: AD 2000 and beyond 198
Appendix; sources 204
Bibliography 208
Index 220
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