Susan Pearce
Biographic Data
| ID | 78854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Pearce |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearce |
| SIGNATURE | PEARCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0243-7620 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Slavery and Dependence in Ancient Egypt: Sources in Translation
Ancient Egypt offers rich sources of documentary evidence for the study of the experiences of dependent people, particularly enslaved persons, and how they changed over almost four millennia from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. This volume, the work of a team of scholars spanning the full range of disciplines and languages involved, provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and themat…
The heavy weight of Covid leadership: An analysis of one international school’s leadership during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented chaos all over the world, and schools and their leaders have not escaped its impacts. This article analyses the leadership actions of the team from one international school in reopening after mandated lockdown; it seeks to contribute to the discourse on school leadership during these unprecedented times and to share leadership lessons with those bearing the weight of responsibility of leadership dur…
The enemy is close and in this sad story, Ximena is the Cid’: Reading The Moor’s Last Sigh in light of Salman Rushdie’s sources
What Is Hellenistic Judaism? An Introduction
The special issue of JSJ brings together four contributions that were originally presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2020 in a panel dedicated to the question “What is Hellenistic Judaism?” The panel was organized by the steering committee of the SBL Hellenistic Judaism section. In the introduction, the editors compare early approaches to Hellenism (Droysen) with contemporary ones (Chaniotis, the contributions…
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation
The role of British Schools Overseas in promoting and upholding British values: Using transmission context in policy analysis
With their central position in society as facilitators of information, schools and teachers play a key role in the articulation and embedding of government-driven policy targeted at school-age children; under the British government, this key role extends beyond the borders, to British Schools Overseas. In the last decade, this has been especially prevalent in the dissemination of anti-terrorism rhetoric and policy, created to prevent the radicali…
From Classification to Recreated ‘Reality’: William Bullock's Exhibitions of Human and Natural History
In his London Museum (1809), William Bullock organised displays of his animal collections into family and contextual groups within re‐creations of their natural surroundings. Subsequently his displays of Saami material re‐created its social environment. Bullock’s exhibitions signal a significant moment in the movement from the Linnaean‐style classification of natural material by appearance to explanation of it through contextual and inherent qual…
It was the small things’: Using the concept of racial microaggressions as a tool for talking to new teachers about racism
The Cleopatras and the Jews
This paper explores a variety of evidence for relations between Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, and her Jewish subjects. In the first part of the paper, the focus is on the profoundly negative portrait of the queen in the works of Josephus, with particular attention to Cleopatra's alleged antipathy to Alexandrian Jews in Josephus's Against Apion . Analysis of Josephus's evidence confirms, I argue, that his case against the queen…
Poetry on the edge: Modern medievalism’s marginal verses
The Types of Wisdom Are Two in Number”: Judah ibn Tibbon’s Quotation from the Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm al-Dīn
The present study bears out an early twentieth-century suggestion that the twelfth-century Andalusi physician, translator, merchant and lexicographer Judah ibn Tibbon quoted directly from the Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm al-dīn , the theological magnum opus of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, in the ethical will he wrote to his son Samuel. In addition to demonstrating, through a consideration of lexicographical evidence, that a sentence from that summa was indeed quoted, in…
Dealing with racist incidents: What do beginning teachers learn from schools
This article focuses on how schools respond to racist incidents, and what new teachers learn from their involvement in those processes. It analyses four incidents involving the pupils of four beginning teachers. The article suggests that in each case, schools either partly or wholly avoided addressing the incident, and that this avoidance can be understood in terms of the colour and power evasive discourse, which is the dominant discourse on race…
On Collecting: Collecting, Collectors and Their Collections
Susan Pearce's "On Collecting: Collecting, Collectors and Their Collections" offers a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted world of collecting. Moving beyond mere acquisition, the book delves into the psychological, social, and cultural motivations behind collecting practices. It examines the diverse range of objects collected, from stamps and butterflies to fine art and antiquities, and analyzes the ways in which collections are organiz…
Interpreting Objects and Collections
Alexander and the Almohads: Telling the stories of antiquity before and after Las Navas
In this essay, I examine the extent to which the narration of versions of the life of Alexander the Great were responsive to the battle at Las Navas de Tolosa, and the ways in which subsequent generations of writers used those romances to explore the battle and its consequences. With particular reference to two codices, containing strikingly similar collections of texts relating both to the life of Alexander the Great and to the rise of the Almoh…
Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in South-western Britain: Their dates, characters and significance
This paper considers the historical, topographical, and morphological characteristics of burial sites in south-western Britain between ad 400 and 1000, looking for evidence of patterns of Christian development across the region. The study concludes that there is no one simple set of characteristics that exclusively identifies sites of this period. It demonstrates the very considerable complexity of the long, slow cultural shift that turned a paga…
Recent Archaeological Work in South-Western Britain: Papers in Honour of Henrietta Quinnell
Egypt on the Pentateuch's Map of Migration in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria
For the first-century Jewish scholar, Philo of Alexandria, the journey narratives of the Pentateuch/Torah constitute a kind of map of spiritual migration, a chart of the journey towards God, under the direction of Moses. Indeed, it is this understanding of the centrality of the journey in Scripture that determines the fundamental place of migration in Philo's philosophical interpretation of Judaism. Through allegorical reading of the journeys of …
Jewish Journeys: From Philo to Hip Hop Introduction
William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007
Lawrence Keppie's volume is published to celebrate the bicentenary of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow, reflecting the fact that the first museum building to house the collection and make it available for study, teaching and viewing in Glasgow, was opened in 1807. The importance of this date is undoubted; as the ‘Introduction’ to the book makes clear, since 1807 the material has continued under the same ownership …
The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo's Representation of Egypt
Das Land des Körpers. Studien zu Philos Darstellung von Ägypten
William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816-25
Journal Article William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816–25 Get access Susan Pearce Susan Pearce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 20, Issue 1, May 2008, Pages 17–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhm031 Published: 09 October 2007
Particular Thanks and Obligations’: The Communications Made by Women to the Society of Antiquaries between 1776 and 1837, and their Significance
This paper brings together the evidence bearing on the relationship between the Society of Antiquaries and the women who contributed to it during a significant period when archaeology, through the work of such men as Samuel Lysons and Richard Colt Hoare, was beginning to emerge as a distinct field with its own conceptual and technical systems. It takes its departure from the first substantial appearance by a woman in the Society's publications in…
Talkback Radio: Some Notes on Format, Politics and Influence
This paper presents early results from an ARC-funded research project on the content, audience and influence of Australian talkback radio. Drawing upon the analysis of data from a survey of three talkback programs — John Laws and Neil Mitchell from the commercial sector and Australia Talks Back from the ABC — the paper focuses upon two aspects: the topics canvassed and the participation of the callers. Although very preliminary, the results of th…
Collectors Expressions of Self and Other
Collectors Expressions of Self and Other, Anthony Shelton (editor). London: Horniman Museum and Gardens and Museu Antropolgico da Univeridade de Coimbra. 2001 250 pp. 51 black and white photos, bibliography, paper
The Meaning of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
Talkback Radio: Some Notes on Format, Politics and Influence
This paper presents early results from an ARC-funded research project on the content, audience and influence of Australian talkback radio. Drawing upon the analysis of data from a survey of three talkback programs — John Laws and Neil Mitchell from the commercial sector and Australia Talks Back from the ABC — the paper focuses upon two aspects: the topics canvassed and the participation of the callers. Although very preliminary, the results of th…
Museums of Anthropology or Museums as Anthropology
During 1995 the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, marketed a postcard depicting 14 early handwritten labels from the museum's archive. This commercially orientated, self-reflexive museum production is taken as the starting point for an analysis of the relationship between the collection, the collector, the museum exhibition and the visiting public. The roles of documentation as an aspect of colonial appropriation, and that of artists in r…
The construction and analysis of the cultural heritage: Some thoughts
Notions of the cultural heritage are a key intellectual and political issue for the twenty‐first century, but practical problems relating to the cultural heritage seldom find their way into front‐line political debate, in either the developing world or electoral issues in the developed world. In part this is because at an academic level the cultural heritage lacks a strong disciplined presence and correspondingly an agreed framework of reference …
It was the small things’: Using the concept of racial microaggressions as a tool for talking to new teachers about racism
Dealing with racist incidents: What do beginning teachers learn from schools
This article focuses on how schools respond to racist incidents, and what new teachers learn from their involvement in those processes. It analyses four incidents involving the pupils of four beginning teachers. The article suggests that in each case, schools either partly or wholly avoided addressing the incident, and that this avoidance can be understood in terms of the colour and power evasive discourse, which is the dominant discourse on race…
On Collecting: Collecting, Collectors and Their Collections
Susan Pearce's "On Collecting: Collecting, Collectors and Their Collections" offers a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted world of collecting. Moving beyond mere acquisition, the book delves into the psychological, social, and cultural motivations behind collecting practices. It examines the diverse range of objects collected, from stamps and butterflies to fine art and antiquities, and analyzes the ways in which collections are organiz…
William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816-25
Journal Article William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816–25 Get access Susan Pearce Susan Pearce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 20, Issue 1, May 2008, Pages 17–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhm031 Published: 09 October 2007
Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Sites in South-western Britain: Their dates, characters and significance
This paper considers the historical, topographical, and morphological characteristics of burial sites in south-western Britain between ad 400 and 1000, looking for evidence of patterns of Christian development across the region. The study concludes that there is no one simple set of characteristics that exclusively identifies sites of this period. It demonstrates the very considerable complexity of the long, slow cultural shift that turned a paga…
A New Way of Looking at Old Things
According to Susan Pearce, the museum as a social construct, a purveyor of ideologically charged notions of knowledge and historical truth, must evolve into a 'reflexive, exploratory' cultural space where 'existing collections speak in new voices'. And to her this implies a major shift in management practices and attitudes. After working on the curatorial staff in the Antiquities Department at National Museums on Merseyside and Exeter City Museum…
Towards modernist collecting: Some European practices of the long term
The beginning of modernist collecting, and, of the particular kinds of knowledge and experience which it embodies are usually considered to begin within the fifteenth century, where interests concentrates on the accumulations of the Medici, and upon the cabinets of curiosities, which begin to appear, as the century draws to a close. However; this early modern collecting practice did not crystalize out of nothing. The standard procedures of histor…
The Meaning of Things: Material Culture and Symbolic Expression
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of MuseumsMichael M. Ames
Studying museum material and collections
In modern post‐Renaissance western society, museums are the political and cultural institutions entrusted with holding the material evidence, real things, which constitute much modern knowledge. The paper considers some aspects of museums as institutions holding this material evidence – the institutional relationship to accepted knowledge and value, the implication in the social and economic system and the visible architectural display, – which m…
Museums and the Appropriation of Culture
Part 1: Please don't touch the ceiling - the culture of appropriation museum theatre in the 1990s - trailblazer or camp-follower? childhood's pattern - appropriation by generation presenting a divisive culture - two exhibitions at the Ulster folk and transport museum appropriating the visitor by addressing the second person mobile museum in India labour history in museums Briton, Boer and black savage South Africa an archaeology of the DeWitt Wal…
Short Reviews
Josephus as Interpreter of Biblical Law: The Representation of the High Court of Deut. 17:8–12 According to Jewish Antiquities 4.218
Dans les Antiquites juives, Flavius Josephe se transforme en commentateur de l'Ancien Testament et notamment de Deuteronome 17:8-12. Josephe propose sa propre interpretation de l'institution de la cour de justice. Pour lui, il s'agit du modele mosaique de l'autorite judiciaire supreme qui doit remplacer celle de Moise. La gerousia represente les anciens, le grand pretre la figure du pretre Eleazar, et le prophete la figure de Josue. L'identificat…
Authority and Anarchy in a Museum Exhibition: Or, The Sacred Wood Revisited
Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of the imagination in which the divine mmd of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dreamlike vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi-Diana's Mirror, as it was called by the ancients. (Frazer, 1957: 1
Flavius Josephus: Eyewitness to Rome's First-Century Conquest of Judaea; Flavius Josephus on the Pharisees: A Composition-Critical Study; Josephus and Judaean Politics; Historiography and Self-Definit…
The construction and analysis of the cultural heritage: Some thoughts
Notions of the cultural heritage are a key intellectual and political issue for the twenty‐first century, but practical problems relating to the cultural heritage seldom find their way into front‐line political debate, in either the developing world or electoral issues in the developed world. In part this is because at an academic level the cultural heritage lacks a strong disciplined presence and correspondingly an agreed framework of reference …
A New Way of Looking at Old Things
According to Susan Pearce, the museum as a social construct, a purveyor of ideologically charged notions of knowledge and historical truth, must evolve into a 'reflexive, exploratory' cultural space where 'existing collections speak in new voices'. And to her this implies a major shift in management practices and attitudes. After working on the curatorial staff in the Antiquities Department at National Museums on Merseyside and Exeter City Museum…
Études PhiloniennesNikiprowetskyV. Études Philoniennes Les Éditions du CerfParis, 1996, 332
MaccabeesdeSilvaD. 4 Maccabees Sheffield Academic PressSheffield, 1998, 173
Museums of Anthropology or Museums as Anthropology
During 1995 the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, marketed a postcard depicting 14 early handwritten labels from the museum's archive. This commercially orientated, self-reflexive museum production is taken as the starting point for an analysis of the relationship between the collection, the collector, the museum exhibition and the visiting public. The roles of documentation as an aspect of colonial appropriation, and that of artists in r…
Contextualising Greek Chronicles
A central part of Gillis Gerleman’s 1946 study of Greek Chronicles2 addressed the controversial question of its dating, (a question in part prompted by the evidence in 1 and 2 Esdras for material with substantial parallels in Greek Chronicles).3 In particular, Gerleman argued against those who, with Grotius, credited the translation of Greek Chronicles to Theodotion, placed in the second century of our era. On this point, Gerleman’s negative conc…
The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300
Contains thirty-seven studies of the adoption of Christianity across northern Europe over 1000 years, and the diverse reasons that drove the process.
Collectors Expressions of Self and Other
Collectors Expressions of Self and Other, Anthony Shelton (editor). London: Horniman Museum and Gardens and Museu Antropolgico da Univeridade de Coimbra. 2001 250 pp. 51 black and white photos, bibliography, paper
Particular Thanks and Obligations’: The Communications Made by Women to the Society of Antiquaries between 1776 and 1837, and their Significance
This paper brings together the evidence bearing on the relationship between the Society of Antiquaries and the women who contributed to it during a significant period when archaeology, through the work of such men as Samuel Lysons and Richard Colt Hoare, was beginning to emerge as a distinct field with its own conceptual and technical systems. It takes its departure from the first substantial appearance by a woman in the Society's publications in…
Talkback Radio: Some Notes on Format, Politics and Influence
This paper presents early results from an ARC-funded research project on the content, audience and influence of Australian talkback radio. Drawing upon the analysis of data from a survey of three talkback programs — John Laws and Neil Mitchell from the commercial sector and Australia Talks Back from the ABC — the paper focuses upon two aspects: the topics canvassed and the participation of the callers. Although very preliminary, the results of th…
The Land of the Body: Studies in Philo's Representation of Egypt
Das Land des Körpers. Studien zu Philos Darstellung von Ägypten
William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816-25
Journal Article William Bullock: Collections and exhibitions at the Egyptian Hall, London, 1816–25 Get access Susan Pearce Susan Pearce Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 20, Issue 1, May 2008, Pages 17–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhm031 Published: 09 October 2007
William Hunter and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, 1807-2007
Lawrence Keppie's volume is published to celebrate the bicentenary of the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Glasgow, reflecting the fact that the first museum building to house the collection and make it available for study, teaching and viewing in Glasgow, was opened in 1807. The importance of this date is undoubted; as the ‘Introduction’ to the book makes clear, since 1807 the material has continued under the same ownership …
Egypt on the Pentateuch's Map of Migration in the Writings of Philo of Alexandria
For the first-century Jewish scholar, Philo of Alexandria, the journey narratives of the Pentateuch/Torah constitute a kind of map of spiritual migration, a chart of the journey towards God, under the direction of Moses. Indeed, it is this understanding of the centrality of the journey in Scripture that determines the fundamental place of migration in Philo's philosophical interpretation of Judaism. Through allegorical reading of the journeys of …
Jewish Journeys: From Philo to Hip Hop Introduction
Recent Archaeological Work in South-Western Britain: Papers in Honour of Henrietta Quinnell
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