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SUMMARY:Objects: From the Excavation Site to Storage: Archaeological Objec
 ts in Transit. - Mirjam Brusius (Max Planck Institute for the History of S
 cience)\; Discussant - Christina Riggs (University of East Anglia)
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CONTACT:William Carruthers
DESCRIPTION:What happens to archaeological objects between their excavatio
 n and their incorporation in museum collections? Focussing on 19th century
  excavations in ancient Mesopotamia\, this talk will investigate the relat
 ionship between Antique objects found at the excavation site and attempts 
 to shift and incorporate them into European canonical traditions at the ma
 jor museums in London\, Paris and Berlin. Even though archaeology has ofte
 n been motivated by political interests\, its historiography has hitherto 
 failed to help us understand how European canons and values are the result
  of a complex transfer in which objects and cultures move from one canonic
 al space to another. The talk will pay attention to the time and space whe
 re the objects seemed to have "no status" and their meaning was still dyna
 mic and negotiable. It will show that this status even persisted once the 
 object arrived in the museums. Here\, the main story took often place in t
 he storage area\, in attics and basements rather than the exhibition hall.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridg
 e CB3 9DT
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