Hidden hands : Egyptian workforces in Petrie excavation archives 1880-1924 /

Despite major movements for change, in practice archaeologists still pursue the past to the exclusion of the present inhabitants of archaeological landscapes. Archaeological archives hold a key to understanding how archaeology took shape as a separate study, and so have great potential to contribute...

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Main Author: Quirke, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: ©2010
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ISBN:9780715639047
0715639048
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Setting a Stage
  • 2. Labour and name in the Petrie publications
  • 3. Names in the Petrie Journals
  • 4. Acts of excision: anonymity in the Petrie Journals
  • 5. The Petrie Notebooks: individual issues
  • 6. Discovery names and object biographies: individual features and finds
  • 7. Find-group records with finder names
  • 8. Notebook base: name-lists
  • 9. Faces and names: the photographs
  • 10. Parallel lives in the archaeology of Egypt.