Collection as (Re)assemblage

Refreshing Museum Archaeology

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3919495
AutoresChris Wingfield (0000-0002-8127-6548, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume49
Fascículo5
Páginas594-607
Data de publicação2017-10-20
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.2017.1406395
OpenAlexW2782948967
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas41

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 assemblage contributed fundamental disciplinary frameworks to archaeology, museums have increasingly been regarded as institutions exclusively focused on the archival storage of excavated material, and the display of archaeological knowledge generated through fieldwork. This paper makes the case that a creative and reflective reengagement with collection, as a process of assemblage and reassemblage, including in forms made possible by electronic media, has the potential to refresh museum archaeology for the twenty-first century, realigning it with other archaeological practices

Action (physics) · Archaeological record · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology) · Discipline · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage