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Alice Stevenson is a Londoner who neither drives, runs nor cycles.
Instead Alice walks, navigating the city's parks, pavements and
paths daily, in all weathers. As the miles have mounted so too has
her knowledge of the city - the thoroughfares and the alleyways,
the beauty spots and the forgotten corners. She is a unique guide
with a unique eye. Whether you are walking with a purpose or
walking to escape, or simply looking for new ways to appreciate the
city, Ways to Walk in London is a revelation. Including walks
above-ground and below-ground, waterways, pathways and the Pedway,
Alice also opens our eyes to London's hidden places and pasts. An
inspiring collection of walks, notes and artworks, revealing
London's multiple layers and different moods.
An inspiring visual adventure. Driven by curiosity, restlessness
and a desire to better understand her own country, artist Alice
Stevenson spent two years exploring and drawing Great Britain. With
an eye for the odd and an antenna for the unexpectedly beautiful,
she documented her slow, attentive forays. Her journeying was wide:
steam trains in Snowdonia, art galleries on remove Scottish
islands, Kent coastlines, Dorset villages, East Anglian
saltmarshes, the erstwhile utopias of Harlow and Portmeirion and
the wild fells of eastern Cumbria. Yet she found many hidden
delights in the dense populations of cities, from Hull and
Plymouth, to Belfast and Edinburgh. The result is a book
celebrating detail, of landscape and architecture, and creativity,
an essential human urge. A rich, artistic journey through a land
deep in natural and man-made puzzles and wonders.
This Element addresses the cultural production of ancient Egypt in
the museum as a mixture of multiple pasts and presents that cohere
around collections; their artefacts, documentation, storage,
research, and display. Its four sections examine how ideas about
the past are formed by museum assemblages: how their histories of
acquisition and documentation shape interpretation, the range of
materials that comprise them, the influence of their geographical
framing, and the moments of remaking that might be possible.
Throughout, the importance of critical approaches to interpretation
is underscored, reasserting the museum as a site of active research
and experiment, rather than only exhibitionary product or
communicative media. It argues for a multi-directional approach to
museum work that seeks to reveal the inter-relations of collection
histories and which has implications not just for museum
representation and documentation, but also for archaeological
practice more broadly.
This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical
engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global
archaeological collections. It challenges the common misconception
that museum archaeology is simply a set of procedures for managing
and exhibiting assemblages. Instead, this volume advances museum
archaeology as an area of reflexive research and practice
addressing the critical issues of what gets prioritized by and
researched in museums, by whom, how, and why. Through twenty-eight
chapters, authors problematize and suggest new ways of thinking
about historic, contemporary, and future relationships between
archaeological fieldwork and museums, as well as the array of
institutional and cultural paradigms through which archaeological
enquiries are mediated. Case studies embrace not just
archaeological finds, but also archival field notes, photographic
media, archaeological samples, and replicas. Throughout, museum
activities are put into dialogue with other aspects of
archaeological practice, with the aim of situating museum work
within a more holistic archaeology that does not privilege
excavation or field survey above other aspects of disciplinary
engagement. These concerns will be grounded in the realities of
museums internationally, including Latin America, Africa, Asia,
Oceania, North America, and Europe. In so doing, the common
heritage sector refrain 'best practice' is not assumed to solely
emanate from developed countries or European philosophies, but
instead is considered as emerging from and accommodated within
local concerns and diverse museum cultures.
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