A Wrap-up of the Area Project

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12415480
AutoresNathan Schlanger (0000-0002-2029-4929, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas29-29
Fecha de publicación2009-05-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBulletin of the History of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1062-4740 • E-ISSN: 2047-6930
EditorialUbiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5334/bha.19112
OpenAlexW2101353447
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas18

an exercise and experiment in the oral history of archaeology'. Richard Bradley then made a salient point. He reminded the audience that when he came to archaeology as a law student in the 1970s, there were no venues in Britain to meet 'one's own contemporaries, engage in theoretical debate, try out new ideas before a live audience'. Inspired by American social and intellectual influences and the Society of American Archaeology's meetings and by Lewis Binford and Kent Flannery's work, Colin Renfrew and Andrew Fleming started TAG as a meeting place at which 'all speakers in a session could attend on equal terms rather employed, unemployed, new comers or ancestors to discuss new ideas'. Bradley concluded that 'TAG has succeeded in Britain by bringing together those two strands, the professional and the amateur/student, all interested in theoretical debate

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