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SUMMARY:Beautiful Burials\, Beautiful Skulls: The Aesthetics (and Ethics) 
 of the Egyptian Mummy - Dr. Christina Riggs\, University of East Anglia\; 
 Discussant - Dr. Chris Wingfield\, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology\
 , University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:William Carruthers
DESCRIPTION:Considerations of aesthetics have played a part in studying an
 d interpreting the ancient past since Winckelmann and Hegel\, although man
 y 20th and 21st century archaeologists may reject 'aesthetics' as a useful
  or productive category. In this paper - developed for the Durham-based AH
 RC Research Network on Ethics and Aesthetics in Archaeology - I use the an
 cient Egyptian mummy to argue for an ancient aesthetic that we can reconst
 ruct through\, for instance\, considerations of materiality\, and I contra
 st that to modern encounters with the Egyptian mummy\, which employ a very
  different\, and very persuasive\, aesthetic based on anatomical and foren
 sic science. What implications might this contrast have for archaeological
  and museological interpretations of the ancient Egyptian funerary sphere\
 , including debates around the ethics of curating and researching human re
 mains?
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridg
 e CB3 9DT
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