Chris Wingfield
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 126601 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Chris Wingfield |
| PRENOMES | Chris |
| SOBRENOME | Wingfield |
| ASSINATURA | WINGFIELD C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham, UK, chris.wingfield@prm. ox.ac.uk |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8127-6548 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Poking holes in things
This paper is not intended as a conventional research report, but rather as an experimental ‘think piece’ that attempts to situate African beads in relation to alternative geographical, temporal and theoretical frames. Throughout the history of archaeology, museums have (re)assembled artefacts to create new contexts for them by establishing new associations and juxtapositions with other artefacts. In pursuing a similar approach, this paper attemp…
Historical Time versus the Imagination of Antiquity
Anthropologists have long distinguished between the narrative forms of myth and history in human retellings of the past. Evans-Pritchard in his lecture ‘Anthropology and history’ noted the different character of myth and history, stating that myth ‘is not concerned so much with a succession of events as with the moral significance of situations, and is hence often allegorical or symbolical in form’. In interpreting archaeological evidence about t…
A "Safe Space" to Debate Colonial Legacy
In February 2016, students at Jesus College, Cambridge voted unanimously to repatriate to Nigeria a bronze cockerel looted during the violent British expedition into Benin City in 1897. The college, however, decided to temporarily relocate Okukor to the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. This article outlines the discussions that occurred during this process, exploring how the Museum was positioned as a safe space in which uncom…
Articles of Dress, Domestic Utensils, Arms and Other Curiosities
The stimulus for this article arises from a comparison between missionary collecting in two of the earliest mission fields established by the London Missionary Society (LMS): the Pacific (1797), and southern Africa (1799). As the location to which a large number of Polynesian ‘idols’ were sent following conversion to Christianity, the LMS museum (1814–1910) has gained an important place in Pacific historiography, but the same cannot be said for s…
Collection as (Re)assemblage
A number of recent publications, including a recent special issue of World Archaeology, have engaged with museum collections as assemblages that can be studied productively. This paper attempts to refigure ‘collection’ and ‘assemblage’ as action nouns, in order to explore the role these processes can have in generating understandings of the past, especially within museum settings. While nineteenth-century projects involving collecting and assembl…
Scarcely more than a Christian trophy case’
The museum at the London Missionary Society headquarters has been studied largely by those with an interest in early Polynesian missionary encounters, and has become famous as a repository for pre-Christian religious 'idols' given up by converts to Christianity. However, the museum also contained material from Africa, China, India, Madagascar and the Americas. This paper demonstrates some of the ways in which collections from different areas of t…
World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum
World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson." Archaeological Journal, 173(2), pp. 396–397
Trophies, Relics and Curios
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, including in Europe itself. By exploring a range of artefacts, photographs and archival documents that have survived, or emerged from, these transformations, this volume sheds an oblique light on the histories of British Mis…
An Imperialist Folklore? Establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London
Imperialist, or world-oriented archaeologies, take shape at the centre of empires, or large-scale economic systems, and assume an outward looking, global orientation. The Folk-Lore Society operated literally in a metropolis, founded and established at Thoms’ insistence in London, and this enabled not only Australia and Africa to be imagined as peripheral, but also the rural poor of England. Trigger’s characterisations of “nationalist, imperialist…
A case re-opened
This article retraces the process by which a feathered rope, discovered in the roof of a house in Somerset, came to be displayed as a 'Witch's Ladder' in a glass case showing 'Magic and Witchcraft' at the Pitt Rivers Museum. This 'retracing' has revealed a set of alternative associations that the feathered rope has had: with other museum objects and written documents, as well as with a range of people. Although presented in the museum as a 'matte…
Collection as (Re)assemblage
A number of recent publications, including a recent special issue of World Archaeology, have engaged with museum collections as assemblages that can be studied productively. This paper attempts to refigure ‘collection’ and ‘assemblage’ as action nouns, in order to explore the role these processes can have in generating understandings of the past, especially within museum settings. While nineteenth-century projects involving collecting and assembl…
A case re-opened
This article retraces the process by which a feathered rope, discovered in the roof of a house in Somerset, came to be displayed as a 'Witch's Ladder' in a glass case showing 'Magic and Witchcraft' at the Pitt Rivers Museum. This 'retracing' has revealed a set of alternative associations that the feathered rope has had: with other museum objects and written documents, as well as with a range of people. Although presented in the museum as a 'matte…
An Imperialist Folklore? Establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London
Imperialist, or world-oriented archaeologies, take shape at the centre of empires, or large-scale economic systems, and assume an outward looking, global orientation. The Folk-Lore Society operated literally in a metropolis, founded and established at Thoms’ insistence in London, and this enabled not only Australia and Africa to be imagined as peripheral, but also the rural poor of England. Trigger’s characterisations of “nationalist, imperialist…
Trophies, Relics and Curios
The British Missionary movement, which began in earnest in the early 19th century, was one of the most extraordinary movements of the last two centuries, radically transforming the lives of people in large parts of the globe, including in Europe itself. By exploring a range of artefacts, photographs and archival documents that have survived, or emerged from, these transformations, this volume sheds an oblique light on the histories of British Mis…
Scarcely more than a Christian trophy case’
The museum at the London Missionary Society headquarters has been studied largely by those with an interest in early Polynesian missionary encounters, and has become famous as a repository for pre-Christian religious 'idols' given up by converts to Christianity. However, the museum also contained material from Africa, China, India, Madagascar and the Americas. This paper demonstrates some of the ways in which collections from different areas of t…
World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum
World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson." Archaeological Journal, 173(2), pp. 396–397
Collection as (Re)assemblage
A number of recent publications, including a recent special issue of World Archaeology, have engaged with museum collections as assemblages that can be studied productively. This paper attempts to refigure ‘collection’ and ‘assemblage’ as action nouns, in order to explore the role these processes can have in generating understandings of the past, especially within museum settings. While nineteenth-century projects involving collecting and assembl…
Articles of Dress, Domestic Utensils, Arms and Other Curiosities
The stimulus for this article arises from a comparison between missionary collecting in two of the earliest mission fields established by the London Missionary Society (LMS): the Pacific (1797), and southern Africa (1799). As the location to which a large number of Polynesian ‘idols’ were sent following conversion to Christianity, the LMS museum (1814–1910) has gained an important place in Pacific historiography, but the same cannot be said for s…
A "Safe Space" to Debate Colonial Legacy
In February 2016, students at Jesus College, Cambridge voted unanimously to repatriate to Nigeria a bronze cockerel looted during the violent British expedition into Benin City in 1897. The college, however, decided to temporarily relocate Okukor to the University’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. This article outlines the discussions that occurred during this process, exploring how the Museum was positioned as a safe space in which uncom…
Historical Time versus the Imagination of Antiquity
Anthropologists have long distinguished between the narrative forms of myth and history in human retellings of the past. Evans-Pritchard in his lecture ‘Anthropology and history’ noted the different character of myth and history, stating that myth ‘is not concerned so much with a succession of events as with the moral significance of situations, and is hence often allegorical or symbolical in form’. In interpreting archaeological evidence about t…
Poking holes in things
This paper is not intended as a conventional research report, but rather as an experimental ‘think piece’ that attempts to situate African beads in relation to alternative geographical, temporal and theoretical frames. Throughout the history of archaeology, museums have (re)assembled artefacts to create new contexts for them by establishing new associations and juxtapositions with other artefacts. In pursuing a similar approach, this paper attemp…
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