What We Talk About When We Talk About Provenance
A Response to Chippindale and Gill
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12201284 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Marlowe (0000-0003-4003-5913, Colgate University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 217-236 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Property (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0940-7391 • E-ISSN: 1465-7317 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0940739116000175 |
| OpenAlex | W2538881769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 6 |
In an influential article published in 2000, David Gill and Christopher Chippindale devised a scale to assess the quality of the provenance information provided for the antiquities displayed in seven recent high-profile exhibitions or collections. This article critically reviews Chippindale and Gill’s provenance scale, arguing that the values it encodes legitimize some of the more intellectually harmful practices of dealers and curators. The scale also fails to differentiate between more intellectually responsible methods of hypothesizing provenance and those that merely generate houses of cards. An alternative model for assessing how antiquities are discussed in museum scholarship, focusing on epistemological precision and reflexivity, is offered
Archaeology · Biology · Cartography · Epistemology · Exhibition · Geography · Political science · Provenance · Reflexivity · Scale (ratio · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Conservation Techniques and Studies · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Paleontology
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |