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SUMMARY:Archaeological Context in Motion: Egyptian Field Sites and the Wor
 ld's Museums\, 1880-1930 - Dr. Alice Stevenson\, UCL Petrie Museum of Egyp
 tian Archaeology\; Discussant - Ruth Horry\, Department of History and Phi
 losophy of Science\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:William Carruthers
DESCRIPTION:The latter part of the Victorian era and early Edwardian perio
 d witnessed a change in the pace and nature of museum collecting of Egypti
 an culture. Crucially\, this was the time when both archaeology as a disci
 pline and museum curatorship as a profession became established\, their re
 lationship up until the 1920s being symbiotic. By examining case studies f
 rom a few of the hundreds of the world’s museums that received such mate
 rial of the export and reception of assemblages from British excavations i
 n Egypt this paper seeks to tease apart these relationships and explore ho
 w the idea of archaeological context was constructed in the intersections 
 between fieldwork and museum practice.
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridg
 e CB3 9DT
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