HSAXO0425U HELGA. Collecting and collecting practices from antiquity till today
HELGA. Collecting and collecting practices from antiquity till today
Forskningsområde knyttet til kurser på Saxo-Instituttet for Arkæologi-, Etnologi og Historiestuderende på 3. semester og Græsk- og Latinstuderende på 5. semester.
HELGA. Collecting and collecting practices from
antiquity till today
In archaeology an assemblage is traditionally defined as static and
temporally fixed as “a group of artifacts recurring together at a
particular time and place”. What happens if we instead understand
assemblages as part of a collecting process? Collecting has
become a major focus of modern museum studies. These studies show
that collecting represents an enormous potential for understanding
the values, mentality and dynamics of a society. In this course we
will discuss some of the challenges associated with introducing
collecting as a way of understanding archaeological assemblages in
classical antiquity. New museology studies and in particular their
focus on material agency and network theory are very helpful as an
offset for studying collecting in antiquity. However, the recent
studies that deal with collecting in antiquity have mainly taken a
logocentric approach. In contrast to these studies we will in this
course discuss what the concept of collecting adds to our
understanding of the material culture. We will consider definitions
for collections and collecting and identify and discuss theoretical
frameworks which may work for collecting antiquity as well as in
the modern era.
The course is composed of lectures, discussions, and written and
oral student assignments. During the course we will be visiting
museums and talk to curators.
OBS:
"Forskningsområde" indgår som en integreret del af:
- Metode 1: Feltarkæologi med
forskningsområde (Arkæologistuderende)
- Kulturanalyse med forskningsområde (Etnologistuderende)
Blanketnavn: HELGA, 3.semester: Forskningsområde, efterår
2024
- Klassisk filologi: historie og metode med forskningsområde
(Græsk- og Latinstuderende)
Blanketnavn: HELGA, 5.semester: Forskningsområde, efterår
2024
- Område 3: historieformidling med formidlingsteori og
forskningsområde (Historiestuderende - se
Historie,
BA, lektionskatalog efterår 2024).
Blanketnavn: Historie, BA, 3.semester: Forskningsområde,
efterår 2024
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Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul, Michigan:
The University of Michigan Press, 2005.
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Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present, Yale: Yale
University Press, 2016.
- Wellington, M.G & D. Pegazzano (eds.), Museum
Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World, Leiden: Brill,
2015.
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