Robin Boast
Biographic Data
| ID | 102006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Boast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Boast |
| SIGNATURE | BOAST R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Neocolonial Collaboration: Museum as Contact Zone Revisited
Museums have increasingly been promoting their postcolonial status through inclusionist programs in exhibitions, shared curatorship, and use of collections. Where there are indigenous stakeholders, we have seen an unprecedented improvement in the empowerment of source communities in the management, use, and presentation of their patrimony in museums. Since James Clifford's 1997 essay, the phrase "contact zone" is now more or less synonymous with …
Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum
As museums begin to revisit their definition of ''expert'' in light of theories about the local character of knowledge, questions emerge about how museums can reconsider their documentation of knowledge about objects. How can a museum present different and possibly conflicting perspectives in such a way that the tension between them is preserved? This article expands upon a collaborative research project between the Museum of Anthropology and Arc…
Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums
This paper advocates that tribal museums adopt a critical and reflexive approach towards using new media technologies to provide digital access to their collections, in support of their agendas of cultural revitalization and self-representation. We present a model which is intended to reveal the important social and cultural factors which should influence the design and implementation of technological systems of access to tribal museum collection…
Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog
Web 2.0 technologies have introduced increasingly participatory practices to creating content, and museums are becoming interested in the potentials of "Museum 2.0" for reaching and engaging with new audiences. As technological advances are opening up the ways in which museums share information about the objects in their collections, the means by which museums create, handle, process, and transmit knowledge has become more transparent. For this t…
Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
Information system research that recognises, supports and enables access of diverse knowledge communities on-line has become a major concern. Of particular concern is how these digital resources can support and preserve local identities and promote grassroots involvement in creating the infrastructure of devolved governance. The aim of this paper is to expose some of the conceptual obstacles to programmes of devolved and local knowledge resources…
Mortimer Wheeler's science of order: The tradition of accuracy at Arikamedu
In February 1944 Mortimer Wheeler, having resigned his duties with the British 8th Army after the Salerno landings, was bound for India. Aboard the City of Exeter, in convoy to Bombay, Wheeler was planning another campaign -to sort out the 'scientifically deplorable' state of India's archaeological survey. Even before he had set a foot on Indian soil, Wheelcr already had a plan. Like all good Officers, colonial and otherwise, Wheeler had determin…
A Small Company of Actors: A Critique of Style
The concept of style has been central to material culture studies for the past 50 years. During this time, the main problem of style has been one of defi nition. Whether cultural evolutionist, processualist or constructivist, the problem of 'what is style' has remained problematic. This paper attempts to go beyond the quest for a definition of style to question the foundations of the categorization of the world into style and utility, and, throug…
Computers in the City: Archaeological Information Systems
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London archaeology
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Rites of Passage: Topological and Formal Representation
An attempt is made to define the use of both topological and formal measures within the organisation of the built environment and to demonstrate the necessary integration of the two measures for understanding the social use of the built environment. Topological measures are here defined as all relational representations of built space such as relational maps, whereas formal measures are defined as transformational attribute-based representations …
Neocolonial Collaboration: Museum as Contact Zone Revisited
Museums have increasingly been promoting their postcolonial status through inclusionist programs in exhibitions, shared curatorship, and use of collections. Where there are indigenous stakeholders, we have seen an unprecedented improvement in the empowerment of source communities in the management, use, and presentation of their patrimony in museums. Since James Clifford's 1997 essay, the phrase "contact zone" is now more or less synonymous with …
Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum
As museums begin to revisit their definition of ''expert'' in light of theories about the local character of knowledge, questions emerge about how museums can reconsider their documentation of knowledge about objects. How can a museum present different and possibly conflicting perspectives in such a way that the tension between them is preserved? This article expands upon a collaborative research project between the Museum of Anthropology and Arc…
Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog
Web 2.0 technologies have introduced increasingly participatory practices to creating content, and museums are becoming interested in the potentials of "Museum 2.0" for reaching and engaging with new audiences. As technological advances are opening up the ways in which museums share information about the objects in their collections, the means by which museums create, handle, process, and transmit knowledge has become more transparent. For this t…
A Small Company of Actors: A Critique of Style
The concept of style has been central to material culture studies for the past 50 years. During this time, the main problem of style has been one of defi nition. Whether cultural evolutionist, processualist or constructivist, the problem of 'what is style' has remained problematic. This paper attempts to go beyond the quest for a definition of style to question the foundations of the categorization of the world into style and utility, and, throug…
Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
Information system research that recognises, supports and enables access of diverse knowledge communities on-line has become a major concern. Of particular concern is how these digital resources can support and preserve local identities and promote grassroots involvement in creating the infrastructure of devolved governance. The aim of this paper is to expose some of the conceptual obstacles to programmes of devolved and local knowledge resources…
Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums
This paper advocates that tribal museums adopt a critical and reflexive approach towards using new media technologies to provide digital access to their collections, in support of their agendas of cultural revitalization and self-representation. We present a model which is intended to reveal the important social and cultural factors which should influence the design and implementation of technological systems of access to tribal museum collection…
Mortimer Wheeler's science of order: The tradition of accuracy at Arikamedu
In February 1944 Mortimer Wheeler, having resigned his duties with the British 8th Army after the Salerno landings, was bound for India. Aboard the City of Exeter, in convoy to Bombay, Wheeler was planning another campaign -to sort out the 'scientifically deplorable' state of India's archaeological survey. Even before he had set a foot on Indian soil, Wheelcr already had a plan. Like all good Officers, colonial and otherwise, Wheeler had determin…
Rites of Passage: Topological and Formal Representation
An attempt is made to define the use of both topological and formal measures within the organisation of the built environment and to demonstrate the necessary integration of the two measures for understanding the social use of the built environment. Topological measures are here defined as all relational representations of built space such as relational maps, whereas formal measures are defined as transformational attribute-based representations …
Rites of Passage: Topological and Formal Representation
An attempt is made to define the use of both topological and formal measures within the organisation of the built environment and to demonstrate the necessary integration of the two measures for understanding the social use of the built environment. Topological measures are here defined as all relational representations of built space such as relational maps, whereas formal measures are defined as transformational attribute-based representations …
Computers in the City: Archaeological Information Systems
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
London archaeology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Small Company of Actors: A Critique of Style
The concept of style has been central to material culture studies for the past 50 years. During this time, the main problem of style has been one of defi nition. Whether cultural evolutionist, processualist or constructivist, the problem of 'what is style' has remained problematic. This paper attempts to go beyond the quest for a definition of style to question the foundations of the categorization of the world into style and utility, and, throug…
Mortimer Wheeler's science of order: The tradition of accuracy at Arikamedu
In February 1944 Mortimer Wheeler, having resigned his duties with the British 8th Army after the Salerno landings, was bound for India. Aboard the City of Exeter, in convoy to Bombay, Wheeler was planning another campaign -to sort out the 'scientifically deplorable' state of India's archaeological survey. Even before he had set a foot on Indian soil, Wheelcr already had a plan. Like all good Officers, colonial and otherwise, Wheeler had determin…
Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
Information system research that recognises, supports and enables access of diverse knowledge communities on-line has become a major concern. Of particular concern is how these digital resources can support and preserve local identities and promote grassroots involvement in creating the infrastructure of devolved governance. The aim of this paper is to expose some of the conceptual obstacles to programmes of devolved and local knowledge resources…
Critical and reflective uses of new media technologies in tribal museums
This paper advocates that tribal museums adopt a critical and reflexive approach towards using new media technologies to provide digital access to their collections, in support of their agendas of cultural revitalization and self-representation. We present a model which is intended to reveal the important social and cultural factors which should influence the design and implementation of technological systems of access to tribal museum collection…
Digital Museums and Diverse Cultural Knowledges: Moving Past the Traditional Catalog
Web 2.0 technologies have introduced increasingly participatory practices to creating content, and museums are becoming interested in the potentials of "Museum 2.0" for reaching and engaging with new audiences. As technological advances are opening up the ways in which museums share information about the objects in their collections, the means by which museums create, handle, process, and transmit knowledge has become more transparent. For this t…
Diverse Knowledges and Contact Zones within the Digital Museum
As museums begin to revisit their definition of ''expert'' in light of theories about the local character of knowledge, questions emerge about how museums can reconsider their documentation of knowledge about objects. How can a museum present different and possibly conflicting perspectives in such a way that the tension between them is preserved? This article expands upon a collaborative research project between the Museum of Anthropology and Arc…
Neocolonial Collaboration: Museum as Contact Zone Revisited
Museums have increasingly been promoting their postcolonial status through inclusionist programs in exhibitions, shared curatorship, and use of collections. Where there are indigenous stakeholders, we have seen an unprecedented improvement in the empowerment of source communities in the management, use, and presentation of their patrimony in museums. Since James Clifford's 1997 essay, the phrase "contact zone" is now more or less synonymous with …
Archaeology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (4 works) · Conservation Techniques and Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (2 works)