Miscast (taxonomies)
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Title
Miscast (taxonomies)
Is Part Of
Archaeology
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Fine Art
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Centre for Curating the Archive
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Description
An extract from an email from archaeologist and former head of African Studies, Prof Nick Shepherd (Jan 21, 2021, 11:33 AM):
"Disciplinary practices and regimes of care constitute a kind of bureaucratization or governmentality of elapsed time and its material remains and human relationships, placing these remains and relationships under a kind of administration. We think of the elaborate structure of regional typologies and chronologies, the immense work of correctly assigning artefacts and sites to these imagined categories, and the vast institutional apparatus that supports these endeavors – all of which constitute archaeology as a formidable disciplinary enterprise. In the face of this enterprise, the 'many worlds' of local claims to the past have little chance of success."
"Disciplinary practices and regimes of care constitute a kind of bureaucratization or governmentality of elapsed time and its material remains and human relationships, placing these remains and relationships under a kind of administration. We think of the elaborate structure of regional typologies and chronologies, the immense work of correctly assigning artefacts and sites to these imagined categories, and the vast institutional apparatus that supports these endeavors – all of which constitute archaeology as a formidable disciplinary enterprise. In the face of this enterprise, the 'many worlds' of local claims to the past have little chance of success."
Access Rights
Centre for Curating the Archive
Curriculum
Creator
Pippa Skotnes
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Date Created
1994
Source
Miscast Archive (Centre for Curating the Archive)
Resonances
Centre for African Studies
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Nick Shepherd
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epistemic violence
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archaeology
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exhibition
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apparatus
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institution
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artefacts
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remains
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chronologies
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typology
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assignment
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administration
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government
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photography
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archive
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medicine chest
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Miscast
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Pippa Skotnes
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Type
Exhibition
