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Hidden Hands - 9780715639047

Un libro in lingua di Stephen Quirke edito da Intl Pub Marketing Inc, 2010

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Despite major movements for change, in practice archaeologists still pursue the past to the exclusion of the present inhabitants of archaeological landscapes. Archaeological archives hold a key to understanding how archaeology took shape as a separate study, and so have great potential to contribute to current debates on ethics in the discipline.

This study focuses on the great archive that records the work of Flinders Petrie in Egypt, first in 1880-1882 under a nationalist government, and then during the English military occupation that lasted from 1882 until after his death in 1942. The archive brings to life the main Egyptian supervisors who enabled Petrie to function as an archaeologist, while payroll lists record the names of hundreds more men and children on the full labour force. None of these Egyptians have received recognition as an archaeologist in history-writing, foreign or Egyptian. This archival ground offers a new open resource to those within Egypt and elsewhere opposed to the neocolonial regime of the disciplines.

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