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Excavating our past : perspectives on the history of the Archaeological Institute of America / edited by Susan Heuck Allen.

Title
Excavating our past : perspectives on the history of the Archaeological Institute of America / edited by Susan Heuck Allen.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Archaeological Institute of America, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Allen, Susan Heuck, 1952-
  • Archaeological Institute of America. General Meeting.
  • Archaeological Institute of America.
Description
xxv, 237 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Colloquia and conference papers ; 5
Uniform Title
Colloquia and conference papers ; no. 5.
Alternative Title
Perspectives on the history of the Archaeological Institute of America
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Outgrowth of a colloquium entitled Excavating our past held at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in Chicago on 28 December 1997.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Archaeological Institute of America timeline, 1879-2001 / Phoebe A. Sheftel -- The archaeology of the AIA : an introduction / Susan Heuck Allen -- Spirit of the times : 19th-century European intellectualism / Nancy Thomson de Grummond -- Charles Eliot Norton and the Archaeological Institute of America / Elizabeth Lyding Will -- "Americans in the East" : Francis Henry Bacon, Joseph Thacher Clarke, and the AIA at Assos / Susan Heuck Allen -- The American School of Classical Studies at Athens : scholarship and high culture in the gilded age / Caroline Winterer -- "Sending out of expeditions" : the contest for Delphi / Phoebe A. Sheftel -- Between Athens and Babylon : the AIA and the politics of American Near Eastern archaeology, 1884-1997 / Neil Asher Silberman -- The "Western idea" : local societies and American archaeology / James E. Snead.
  • The dream that failed : the AIA's Department of Canada (1908-1915) / James Russell -- The Archaeological Institute of America between the wars / Stephen L. Dyson -- The great divides : the AIA and professional responsibility in archaeology / Clemency Coggins -- Computer technology and the Archaeological Institute of America / Harrison Eiteljorg II.
ISBN
096090428X (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2002018503
OCLC
  • 49320433
  • SCSB-10562336
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library