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Wingfield, Chris 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8127-6548
(2017)
Collection as (Re)assemblage: refreshing museum archaeology.
World Archaeology, 49 (5).
pp. 594-607.
ISSN 0043-8243
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collection,collecting,assemblage,reassemblage,museum,comparison |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 05 May 2020 00:06 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2022 06:06 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74964 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00438243.2017.1406395 |
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