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SUMMARY:Disciplinary Formation\, Imperialist Gender\, Nationalist Class: E
 gyptian Archaeology under British Military Occupation (1882-1956) - Profes
 sor Stephen Quirke\, UCL\; Discussant - Dr. Kate Nichols\, CRASSH\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge
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CONTACT:William Carruthers
DESCRIPTION:In his 1996 History of Archaeological Thought\, Bruce Trigger 
 described archaeology across Africa as neo-colonial.  Two decades later\, 
 in the political economy of knowledge\, de-colonisation remains one paradi
 gm shift that never materialised – nowhere more visibly than in the stud
 y of other places/times. With a smaller scale of population\, narrowly bou
 nded disciplines offer opportunities to analyse this continuity\, and to i
 dentify the trump cards of domination. In Egyptology established practitio
 ners such as the philologist Georges Posener have voiced concern over self
 -isolation\; in its current practice\, the sub-discipline seems torn betwe
 en the First World technocracy of archaeological fieldwork\, and an anti-t
 heoretical positivism in research into ancient written sources. From the h
 istory of nineteenth and twentieth century archaeology\, two particular li
 beration motifs or genres might be re-interpreted as implicit strategies o
 f domination: praise of women archaeologists\, in a first wave feminist st
 yle\; and praise of Egyptian Egyptologists\, in nationalist historiography
 . Is it possible to develop a self-critique in either area\, against norma
 tive self-images of heroism? Is a war of position possible against the heg
 emonic structures of both science and its civil society?
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1 Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridg
 e CB3 9DT
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