Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections
Curation as research. A case study in orphaned and underreported archaeological collections
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作为研究的策展。
DOI：
10.1017/s1380203812000219
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
B. Voss
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作者：
B. Voss
随着考古学家努力应对国际策展危机，新的注意力正在转向“孤儿”考古收藏品和未被充分分析和报告的收藏品的问题。管理这些收藏品的共同理由是恢复研究潜力，但这种努力遇到了挫折，因为很难重新确定文物的来源和数量控制，这些文物长期脱离其原始考古背景。此外，大多数考古学家认为策展是一个管理而不是调查考古收藏品的过程。相反，本文认为，登记，库存，编目，安置和保护不只是研究的先驱，而是学者和对象之间有意义的生成性接触。从市场街唐人街考古收藏策展的例子说明了如何策展的过程可以产生创新的研究事业。由于对这些藏品的考古研究无法以典型的方式进行，因此通过策展过程开发的研究背离了考古惯例，为海外华人的社会历史带来了新的视角。
As archaeologists grapple with the international curation crisis, new attention is being given to the problem of ‘orphaned’ archaeological collections and collections that are underanalysed and underreported. The common rationale for curating such collections is to restore research potential, but such efforts are met with frustration because of the difficulties of re-establishing provenance and quantitative control for artefacts long separated from their original archaeological context. Moreover, most archaeologists view curation as a process that manages, rather than investigates, archaeological collections. To the contrary, this article argues that accessioning, inventory, cataloguing, rehousing and conservation are not simply precursors to research, but rather meaningful generative encounters between scholars and objects. Examples from the curation of the Market Street Chinatown archaeological collection illustrate how the process of curation can generate innovative research undertakings. Because archaeological research on this collection cannot proceed in a typical way, the research developed through the curation process departs from archaeological conventions to bring new perspectives on the social history of the Overseas Chinese diaspora.