William Carruthers
Biographic Data
| ID | 83983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Carruthers |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Carruthers |
| SIGNATURE | CARRUTHERS W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of East Anglia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3075-9432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1894 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal
This article examines archaeological assistance provided to Nepal by the Archaeological Survey of India as part of India’s aid efforts there in the 1960s. It demonstrates how that work, which endeavored to show long-standing Indian–Nepali connections and strengthen the two countries’ contemporary relationship, sat within a complex set of threads tying it to wider interest in the regional past of post-Partition India. Those threads were filtered t…
No More Heroes: What Is the History of Egyptology Actually For
Michael Falser, Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage
This book about the making of a monument is monumental in both size and ambition. In two hardbound and (very) heavyweight volumes, over the course of almost nine hundred pages of text—and with reference to over a thousand (!) images—Michael Falser authors “a transcultural history of heritage” focused on Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex. Detailing the life and development of Angkor during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Falser makes pl…
Special Issue: Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology
This special issue gathers together a selection of short articles reflecting on the historical construction of inequality and race in the histories of archaeology. The articles also suggest ways in which the discipline might grapple with the—often obvious, sometimes subtle—consequences of that historical process. Solicited via an open call for papers in the summer of 2020 (one made with the aim of speedy publication), the breadth of the topics di…
Archaeological (Non?) Alignments: Egypt, India, and Global Geographies of the Post-War Past
This article demonstrates how the politics of non-alignment and multilateralism intersected with the making of scientific knowledge about the past after the Second World War. The article shows how post-war political (re-) arrangements helped to realign not only the geographies of that knowledge, but also the people who could claim expertise in making it. The article concentrates on events during UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monumen…
Lucia Allais, Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century
Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950's Egypt
This article argues that forms of civility governing who possessed the credibility to carry out archaeological fieldwork in Egypt changed during the post-Second World War era of decolonization. Incorporating Arabic sources, the article focuses on the preparation of a dig house used during an excavation run by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Mit Rahina, Egypt, in the…
Rule of Objects: On the De-Peopling of Safe Havens
What does it mean to be “safe,” and what does it mean to be “endangered”? Who defines these terms, why, and what does this act of definition allow them to do? In December 2016, a conference entitled Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage took place in Abu Dhabi, organized jointly by the governments of the United Arab Emirates and France, and held under the patronage of UNESCO. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Shaykh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,…
Disassembling archeology, reassembling the modern world
This article provides a substantive discussion of the relevance of the history of archeology to the history of science. At the same time, the article introduces the papers contained in this special issue as exemplars of this relevance. To make its case, the article moves through various themes in the history of archeology that overlap with key issues in the history of science. The article discusses the role and tension of regimes of science in an…
Visualizing a monumental past: Archeology, Nasser's Egypt, and the early Cold War
This article examines geographies of decolonization and the Cold War through a case study in the making of archeological knowledge. The article focuses on an archeological dig that took place in Egypt in the period between the July 1952 Free Officers' coup and the 1956 Suez crisis. Making use of the notion of the 'boundary object', this article demonstrates how the excavation of ancient Egyptian remains at the site of Mit Rahina helped to constit…
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser." Public Archaeology, 14(3), pp. 221–222
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (Riggs)
This work is a book review considering the title Unwrapping Ancient Egypt by Christina Riggs
Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures
1. Introduction: Thinking about Histories of Egyptology William Carruthers Part I: The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline 2. The Object of Study: Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology at Oxford, 1860-1960 Alice Stevenson 3. The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School: The Interwar Correspondence of Adolf Erman and Alan Gardiner and the Loss of the German Concession at Amarna Thomas Gertzen 4. The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiari…
The rise and fall of ancient Egypt? Egyptology's never-ending story
In an op-ed piece onThe Wall Street Journal'swebsite promoting his latest book,The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt(Wilkinson, T. 2010), Toby Wilkinson draws parallels between events in Egypt's past to those in its present. "The current situation in Egypt", we are told, "comes as no surprise to a student of the country's long history" (Wilkinson, T. 2011). It is only appropriate to observe, then, that the problematic nature of Wilkinson's book come…
Local Government Reform in England: A Symposium: Discussion
Major Shopping Centres in England and Wales, 1961
Carruthers W. I. (1967) Major Shopping Centres in England and Wales, 1961, Reg. Studies 1, 65–81. The 1961 Census of Distribution makes possible a completely new assessment of the distribution of shopping centres and their status, based for the most part on data about the central shopping areas themselves. This can be based on the comparison of a number of indices, including amount and type of trade, estimated net attraction from beyond the admin…
Contributions to the Physical Geography of British East Africa: Discussion
Special Issue: Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology
This special issue gathers together a selection of short articles reflecting on the historical construction of inequality and race in the histories of archaeology. The articles also suggest ways in which the discipline might grapple with the—often obvious, sometimes subtle—consequences of that historical process. Solicited via an open call for papers in the summer of 2020 (one made with the aim of speedy publication), the breadth of the topics di…
Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures
1. Introduction: Thinking about Histories of Egyptology William Carruthers Part I: The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline 2. The Object of Study: Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology at Oxford, 1860-1960 Alice Stevenson 3. The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School: The Interwar Correspondence of Adolf Erman and Alan Gardiner and the Loss of the German Concession at Amarna Thomas Gertzen 4. The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiari…
Major Shopping Centres in England and Wales, 1961
Carruthers W. I. (1967) Major Shopping Centres in England and Wales, 1961, Reg. Studies 1, 65–81. The 1961 Census of Distribution makes possible a completely new assessment of the distribution of shopping centres and their status, based for the most part on data about the central shopping areas themselves. This can be based on the comparison of a number of indices, including amount and type of trade, estimated net attraction from beyond the admin…
Disassembling archeology, reassembling the modern world
This article provides a substantive discussion of the relevance of the history of archeology to the history of science. At the same time, the article introduces the papers contained in this special issue as exemplars of this relevance. To make its case, the article moves through various themes in the history of archeology that overlap with key issues in the history of science. The article discusses the role and tension of regimes of science in an…
Visualizing a monumental past: Archeology, Nasser's Egypt, and the early Cold War
This article examines geographies of decolonization and the Cold War through a case study in the making of archeological knowledge. The article focuses on an archeological dig that took place in Egypt in the period between the July 1952 Free Officers' coup and the 1956 Suez crisis. Making use of the notion of the 'boundary object', this article demonstrates how the excavation of ancient Egyptian remains at the site of Mit Rahina helped to constit…
Archaeological (Non?) Alignments: Egypt, India, and Global Geographies of the Post-War Past
This article demonstrates how the politics of non-alignment and multilateralism intersected with the making of scientific knowledge about the past after the Second World War. The article shows how post-war political (re-) arrangements helped to realign not only the geographies of that knowledge, but also the people who could claim expertise in making it. The article concentrates on events during UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monumen…
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (Riggs)
This work is a book review considering the title Unwrapping Ancient Egypt by Christina Riggs
Contributions to the Physical Geography of British East Africa: Discussion
Major Shopping Centres in England and Wales, 1961
Carruthers W. I. (1967) Major Shopping Centres in England and Wales, 1961, Reg. Studies 1, 65–81. The 1961 Census of Distribution makes possible a completely new assessment of the distribution of shopping centres and their status, based for the most part on data about the central shopping areas themselves. This can be based on the comparison of a number of indices, including amount and type of trade, estimated net attraction from beyond the admin…
Local Government Reform in England: A Symposium: Discussion
The rise and fall of ancient Egypt? Egyptology's never-ending story
In an op-ed piece onThe Wall Street Journal'swebsite promoting his latest book,The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt(Wilkinson, T. 2010), Toby Wilkinson draws parallels between events in Egypt's past to those in its present. "The current situation in Egypt", we are told, "comes as no surprise to a student of the country's long history" (Wilkinson, T. 2011). It is only appropriate to observe, then, that the problematic nature of Wilkinson's book come…
Histories of Egyptology: Interdisciplinary Measures
1. Introduction: Thinking about Histories of Egyptology William Carruthers Part I: The Creation and Isolation of an Academic Discipline 2. The Object of Study: Egyptology, Archaeology, and Anthropology at Oxford, 1860-1960 Alice Stevenson 3. The Anglo-Saxon Branch of the Berlin School: The Interwar Correspondence of Adolf Erman and Alan Gardiner and the Loss of the German Concession at Amarna Thomas Gertzen 4. The Cursed Discipline? The Peculiari…
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser
Contesting Antiquity in Egypt: Archaeologies, Museums & the Struggle for Identities from World War I to Nasser." Public Archaeology, 14(3), pp. 221–222
Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (Riggs)
This work is a book review considering the title Unwrapping Ancient Egypt by Christina Riggs
Rule of Objects: On the De-Peopling of Safe Havens
What does it mean to be “safe,” and what does it mean to be “endangered”? Who defines these terms, why, and what does this act of definition allow them to do? In December 2016, a conference entitled Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage took place in Abu Dhabi, organized jointly by the governments of the United Arab Emirates and France, and held under the patronage of UNESCO. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Shaykh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan,…
Disassembling archeology, reassembling the modern world
This article provides a substantive discussion of the relevance of the history of archeology to the history of science. At the same time, the article introduces the papers contained in this special issue as exemplars of this relevance. To make its case, the article moves through various themes in the history of archeology that overlap with key issues in the history of science. The article discusses the role and tension of regimes of science in an…
Visualizing a monumental past: Archeology, Nasser's Egypt, and the early Cold War
This article examines geographies of decolonization and the Cold War through a case study in the making of archeological knowledge. The article focuses on an archeological dig that took place in Egypt in the period between the July 1952 Free Officers' coup and the 1956 Suez crisis. Making use of the notion of the 'boundary object', this article demonstrates how the excavation of ancient Egyptian remains at the site of Mit Rahina helped to constit…
Credibility, civility, and the archaeological dig house in mid-1950's Egypt
This article argues that forms of civility governing who possessed the credibility to carry out archaeological fieldwork in Egypt changed during the post-Second World War era of decolonization. Incorporating Arabic sources, the article focuses on the preparation of a dig house used during an excavation run by the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania at the site of Mit Rahina, Egypt, in the…
Archaeological (Non?) Alignments: Egypt, India, and Global Geographies of the Post-War Past
This article demonstrates how the politics of non-alignment and multilateralism intersected with the making of scientific knowledge about the past after the Second World War. The article shows how post-war political (re-) arrangements helped to realign not only the geographies of that knowledge, but also the people who could claim expertise in making it. The article concentrates on events during UNESCO’s International Campaign to Save the Monumen…
Lucia Allais, Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century
Michael Falser, Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage
This book about the making of a monument is monumental in both size and ambition. In two hardbound and (very) heavyweight volumes, over the course of almost nine hundred pages of text—and with reference to over a thousand (!) images—Michael Falser authors “a transcultural history of heritage” focused on Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex. Detailing the life and development of Angkor during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Falser makes pl…
Special Issue: Inequality and Race in the Histories of Archaeology
This special issue gathers together a selection of short articles reflecting on the historical construction of inequality and race in the histories of archaeology. The articles also suggest ways in which the discipline might grapple with the—often obvious, sometimes subtle—consequences of that historical process. Solicited via an open call for papers in the summer of 2020 (one made with the aim of speedy publication), the breadth of the topics di…
No More Heroes: What Is the History of Egyptology Actually For
Developing Indian pasts? The Archaeological Survey of India, ‘postcolonial’ archaeology, and technical assistance in Nepal
This article examines archaeological assistance provided to Nepal by the Archaeological Survey of India as part of India’s aid efforts there in the 1960s. It demonstrates how that work, which endeavored to show long-standing Indian–Nepali connections and strengthen the two countries’ contemporary relationship, sat within a complex set of threads tying it to wider interest in the regional past of post-Partition India. Those threads were filtered t…
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