Incomplete archaeologies: assembling knowledge in the past and present
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1056
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- ISBN
- 9781785701153
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 15 - Archaeology
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This edited volume came about as the result of a session on assemblage (as an archaeological concept and as a social practice in the past) which Kate Franklin co-organized with her co-authors at the 2013 meetings of the European Archaeological Association. Kate was active in the editorial process for the resulting volume, which involved working closely with the individual authors in order to make their chapters speak to one another. Furthermore, she took the lead position in drafting the Introduction, and thus in formulating the intellectual intervention of the book as a cohesive project. The Introduction (13pp) is an essay on the provocative idea of incompleteness as a way of talking about assemblage as process and draws on Kate's original MPhil research and further original observations on contemporary debates over the situated 'art object' in Detroit, where she lived during the editorial process. The Introduction is a review of the state of the field at the time of publication in terms of theories of materiality and entanglement as they were taken up by archaeologists. Kate's own single-author chapter (17pp) works as a de facto conclusion for the book, looking at the mutual assembling of persons and collections across a range of case studies, including her doctoral work on medieval Armenia. So, the edited volume demonstrates, in a number of ways, Franklin’s skills in thinking in the company of others. We are asking that her article be assessed alongside her overall editorial work as well as the co-written introduction.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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