Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924

Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924

by Stephen Quirke
Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924

Hidden Hands: Egyptian Workforces in Petrie Excavation Archives, 1880-1924

by Stephen Quirke

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Overview

Despite major movements for change, in practice archaeologists still pursue the past to the exclusion of the present inhabitants of archaeological landscapes. Archaeological archives hold a key to the formation of archaeology as a separate study, but they may be overlooked in current debates on ethics in archaeology and anthropology. This study focuses on the great archive that records the work of Flinders Petrie in Egypt, first in 1880-1882 under a nationalist government, and then during the English military occupation that lasted from 1882 until after his death in 1942. The archive brings to life the main Egyptian supervisors who enabled Petrie to function as an archaeologist, while payroll lists record the names of hundreds more men and children on the full labour force. None of these Egyptians have received recognition as an archaeologist in history-writing, foreign or Egyptian. This archival ground offers a new open resource to those within Egypt and elsewhere opposed to the neo-colonial regime of the disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780715639047
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/15/2010
Series: BCP Egyptology
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Stephen Quirke is Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Setting a stage 1

2 Labour and name in the Petrie publications 26

3 Names in the Petrie Journals 49

4 Acts of excision: anonymity in the Petrie Journals 86

5 The Petrie Notebooks: individual issues 110

6 Discovery names and object biographies: individual features and finds 155

7 Find-group records with finder names 169

8 Notebook base: name-lists 198

9 Faces and names: the photographs 271

10 Parallel lives in the archaeology of Egypt 294

Bibliography 313

List of illustrations and sources 323

Index 327

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