Field Notes: Histories of Archaeology and Anthropology
Alternate Thursdays, 13.30-3.30 during term-time
CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT
Conveners
William Carruthers (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
Allegra Fryxell (Department of History)
Julie Lawrence (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Faculty Advisors
Christopher Evans (Executive Director, Cambridge Archaeological Unit)
Prof Robert Foley (Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution)
Professor Martin Jones (George-Pitt Rivers Professor of Archaeological Science, Division of Archaeology)
Dr Eleanor Robson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Division of Social Anthropology)
The group aims to encourage
interdisciplinary discussion about the histories of archaeology and
anthropology. Specifically, it seeks to harness the increasing internal
discussion about the past of these two related disciplines and couple it with
enquiries conducted within the history of science. Combining the growing
interest of the history of science in these disciplines with the historical
discussions taking place within them, the group aims both to consolidate previous
historical work and also to point to new directions in which to take it. The
group aims to utilise Cambridge as an especially appropriate base in which to
begin this interdisciplinary discussion, since the University not only
possesses historical importance in the disciplines of archaeology and
anthropology, but also a particularly active history of science department.
Similarly, CRASSH provides a location where this expertise can mingle. Within
this context, fortnightly seminars and reading groups will move the agenda of
the group forward.
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Administrative contact: Esther Lamb (Graduate/Faculty Programme and Office Manager)
Poster images from Flickr creative commons by d.schille
