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Author:   Robin Skeates (Senior Lecturer, Durham University.) ,  Carol McDavid (Executive Director, Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. (CARI), Texas, USA.) ,  John Carman (Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, University of Birmingham.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.650kg
ISBN:  

9780199237821

ISBN 10:   0199237824
Pages:   748
Publication Date:   05 January 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of contributors Introduction I. Histories of public archaeology 1: John Carman: Towards an international comparative history of archaeological heritage management 2: Hilary Allester Soderland: America s cherished reserves: the enduring significance in the USA of the 1916 National Park Organic Act 3: Suzie Thomas: Archaeologists and metal-detector users in England and Wales: past, present, and future 4: Robin Skeates: Making sense of the history of archaeological representation 5: Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Marcia Bezerra: Public archaeology in Latin America 6: Dilip K. Chakrabarti: Archaeology and politics in the Third World, with special reference to India II. Researching public archaeology 7: Tim Murray: Writing histories of archaeology 8: Laurajane Smith and Emma Waterton: Constrained by commonsense: the authorized heritage discourse in contemporary debates 9: William E. Boyd: A frame to hang clouds on : cognitive ownership, landscape, and heritage management 10: Mary-Cate E. Garden: Living with landscapes of heritage 11: Fred L. McGhee: Participatory action research and archaeology 12: Neil Brodie: Uncovering the antiquities market 13: Morag M. Kersel: The value of a looted object: stakeholder perceptions in the antiquities trade III. Managing public archaeological resources 14: Anthony Pace: From heritage to stewardship: defining the sustainable care of archaeological places 15: John Schofield, Rachael Kiddey, and Brett Lashua: People and landscape 16: Adrian Praetzellis: CRM archaeology: the view from California 17: Stephen Trow and Jane Grenville: Agriculture, environmental conservation, and archaeological curation in historic landscapes 18: Hedley Swain: Archive archaeology IV. Working at archaeology with the public: principles, practices, and debates Archaeologists as professional public servants 19: Timothy Darvill: Archaeology as a profession 20: Barbara J. Little: Public benefits of public archaeology 21: Michael Shakir Nassaney: Enhancing public archaeology through community service learning Public interpretation and presentation 22: Mick Aston: Publicizing archaeology in Britain in the late twentieth century: a personal view 23: Kristian Kristiansen: Archaeological communities and languages 24: Anders Gustafsson and Håkan Karlsson: Changing of the guards : the ethics of public interpretation at cultural heritage sites 25: Margaret Purser: Emptying the magician s hat: participatory GIS-based research in Fiji 26: David A. Gadsby and Robert C. Chidester: Class, labour, and the public Public learning and education in the USA 27: Alice Beck Kehoe: Public education in archaeology in North America: the long view 28: Kevin M. Bartoy: Teaching through rather than about: education in the context of public archaeology 29: M. Elaine Frankin and Jeanne M. Moe: A vision for archaeological literacy 30: Patrice L. Jeppson: Public archaeology and the US culture wars Working with particular publics 31: James M. Davidson and Jamie C. Brandon: Descent community partnering, the politics of time, and the logistics of reality: tales from North American, African diaspora, archaeology 32: Cheryl Jenifer LaRoche: The anthropology of archaeology: the benefits of public intervention at African American archaeological sites 33: Joe Watkins: Public archaeology and indigenous archaeology: intersections and divergences from a Native American perspective 34: Tim Phillips and Roberta Gilchrist: Inclusive, accessible, archaeology Index

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This is a book that archaeologists in many periods and parts of the world should have on their shelves. Madeleine Hummler, Antiquity

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Robin Skeates is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University. Carol McDavid is Executive Director at the Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. (CARI) in Houston, Texas. John Carman is Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Heritage Valuation at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.

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