Engineering the past
Pitt Rivers, Nemo andThe Needle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3780129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Evans (0000-0001-9203-1354), Chris Evans (0000-0002-4197-4202, University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Christopher Evans (0009-0000-5778-6858) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 310 |
| Pages | 960-969 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00094540 |
| OpenAlex | W160797473 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
Exploring parallels between the careers of Lt.-General Pitt Rivers and Verne's Captain Nemo, this essay is concerned with time and disciplinary flagships. It considers how their respective collection activities propelled their very personal projects of science and, in the case of the General, its interrelationship with the institutionalisation of archaeology in the later nineteenth century. In particular, the implications of his renowned excavation medallion will be discussed and compared to a celebrated time capsule of the period; it being argued that 'deep time' consciousness itself engendered notions of futuristic projection
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Consciousness · Discipline · Epistemology · Operations management · Parallels · Period (music) · Projection (relational algebra) · Social science · Sociology · Classics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy
The Past is a Foreign Country
The amateur and the professional
Archaeology and Modernity
Ornamentalism
Victorian Anthropology
Time and Chance
The science fiction of H. G. Wells
Collectors
Primitive Warfare, Section II. On the Resemblance of the Weapons of Early Races; their Variations, Continuity, and Development of Form
The amateur and the professional
The Great Archaeologists
Man as He Was and Man as He Is
Pitt Rivers. The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA
Archaeology and the threat of the past
The catalogues of the Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham, Dorset
Writing archaeology
South Lodge after Pitt Rivers
Megalithic Follies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2009 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |