- Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford. OX1 3PP. UK
- +44 (0)1865 613011
Dan Hicks
University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, Faculty Member
- Museum of London Archaeology, Board, Department MemberUniversity of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Faculty Member, and 4 moreadd
- Anthropology, Material Culture Studies, Cultural Heritage, Historical Archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Landscape Archaeology, and 152 moreArchaeological Method & Theory, Prehistoric Archaeology, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Contemporary Archaeology, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Material Culture, Heritage, Museum and Heritage Studies, History of Museums, History, Museum Anthropology, Ethnography, Visual Arts, Anthropological Archaeology, Anthropological Theory, Archaeological Heritage Management, Museums, Museum, World Cultural Heritage, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous or Aboriginal Studies, Materiality (Anthropology), Materiality, Material Culture & Materiality, Object Oriented Ontology, Ontological Turn, History of Archaeology, Neolithic Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Near Eastern Archaeology, Classical Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Caribbean Archaeology, Latin American and Caribbean History, Early Modern History, Victorian Studies, Early Modern Material Culture, Art Theory, Dan Hicks, Bruno Latour, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Geography, Social Sciences, Cultural Geography, Political Anthropology, Radical Geography, Ontology, Culture, Visual Studies, Geography, Prehistory, Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), History of Archaeological Praxis, Survey (Archaeological Method & Theory), Archaeological survey, Archeology, Archéologie, Arkeologi Arsitektur, Arkeologi Sosial, Arkeoloji, Arkeologi, Arkeology, Archeologia, History of Archeology, Archeologie, Arqueología, Arqueologia, Archäologie, археология, 考古学, Fornaldarsögur, Arheologija, Arheology, Arheologie, Arqueología histórica, Arqueología Social, Antropología, Antropología Social, Antropología cultural, Antropologia, Antrophology, Antropology, Antropology Social, Antropología filosófica, Antropoloji, Cultural Antropology, Antropología Política, Departamentos de Antropología, Antropologia Social, Sosiologi Dan Antropologi, Antropología de la tecnología, Antropología Visual, Antropolgia Social, Etnohistoria, Etnography, Etnologia, Etnografía, Etnología, Museología, Museology, Museum Interpretation, Philosophical Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, History of Anthropology, Anthropology Of Art, Economic Anthropology, Sociology and Anthropology, Cognitive archaeology, Perspectivismo, Tim Ingold, Philippe Descola, Multinaturalism, Ontological Politics, Environmental Anthropology, Archaeological photography, Memory and materiality, Anthropology of the contemporary, Anthropology of Time, Thing Theory, The Archaeology of the Recent Past, Theoretical Archaeology, History (Archaeology), History and archaeology, History of Archaeological Theory, History of Art and archaeology, Critical Theory, Human Geography, Social Theory, Cultural Theory, Social Geography, Space and Place, Education, Postcolonial Theory, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Colonialism, Philosophy of Science, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Cultural History, Art History, and Architectureedit
- Dan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and ... moreDan Hicks is Professor of Contemporary Archaeology the University of Oxford, Curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. More info: https://www.danhicks.uk/edit
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the... more
Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.
Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections.
The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of Benin City, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections.
The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Research Interests: History, Military History, Cultural Studies, African Studies, Archaeology, and 15 moreAnthropology, Art History, Museum Studies, Violence, Material Culture Studies, Race and Racism, War Studies, African History, History of West Africa, Africa, Colonialism, History of Museums, Nigeria, Empire, and Material Culture
Lesley McFadyen and Dan Hicks (eds) 2019. Archaeology and Photography: time, objectivity and archive. London: Bloomsbury
Research Interests: Archaeology, Photographs, Photography, Archaeological Method & Theory, Photography Theory, and 8 morePhilosophy of Photography, Architecture And Photography, Architectural Photography, History of photography, Photography (Visual Studies), History of Archaeology, Aerial Photography, and History and Theory of Photography
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004862 How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from... more
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence: http://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=1004862 How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, and 15 moreMaterial Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Border Studies, Refugee Studies, Visual Culture, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Contemporary Archaeology, Migration Studies, Anthropology of Borders, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Refugee Camps, Material Culture, Refugees, Borders and Frontiers, and Refugees and Forced Migration Studies
Research Interests: Near Eastern Archaeology, Museum Studies, Museum, Collections Management, Archaeological Method & Theory, and 24 moreHistory of Museums, History of Collections, Collecting and Collections, Museology, Aegean Archaeology, History of Archeology, Museum Collection history, European Prehistory (Archaeology), History of Collections (Archaeology), Easter Island Archaeology, World Archaeology, History of Archaeology, Museología, Museologia, Oxford, Museology, Archaeology, History, Anthropology, Museografia, Museology (Study of Collections), University of Oxford, Archaeology and Museology, Museum history, Muséologie, Museologia e Museografia, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History
An overview of global thinking in historical archaeology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Industrial Archaeology, Archaeological Method & Theory, History (Archaeology), and 19 moreContemporary Archaeology, Theoretical Archaeology, Archaeological Theory, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeology of Contemporary Past, Archaeology and History, Modern archaeology, Post medieval pottery, Modern conflict archaeology, Post-Medieval Archaeology, The Archaeology of the Recent Past, Industrial Archaeology & Heritage, Documentary Archaeology, Beer cans. Historic artifacts. Modern Material Culture., Industrial Archeology, Archaeology of Colonialism, History of Archaeological Theory, Industrial Archaeology and Heritage, and The Archeology of Recent Past.
Hicks, D. 2007. The Garden of the World: a historical archaeology of sugar landscapes in the eastern Caribbean. Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports)
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, and 44 moreLatin American and Caribbean History, Cultural Heritage, Landscape Archaeology, Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous Archaeololgy, Atlantic World, Fieldwork in Anthropology, Archaeology of Colonialisms, History of Slavery, Colonialism, Latin America and Caribbean, Caribbean History, Landscape History, Cultures and heritage tourism, Caribbean Studies, Gardens, The Caribbean, British Empire, African Diaspora, Colonization (British Empire), Postcolonial Theory, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Caribbean Slavery, Cultural Heritage Management, Garden History, Caribbean Archaeology, West Indies (History), Afro-Caribbean History, Empire, French Colonial Archaeology, History of the British Empire, Postcolonial Archaeology, Imperialism, Sugar industry, Plantations, Plantation Archaeology, Plantation economy, Caribbean Indentured Labour, Cemetery Studies, Windward Islands, Archaeology of Colonialism, African American Archaeology, Enslaved African Cemeteries, and Postcolonialism
Dan Hicks 2021. Glorious Memory. In Helen Carr and Suzannah Lipscomb (eds) What Is History, Now? London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, pp. 147-167.
Research Interests: Art History, Historical Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, History and Memory, and 14 moreColonialism, Memory Studies, Social and Collective Memory, British Empire, Colonial and Imperial (British) Legal History, Critical Race Theory and Whiteness theory, Heritage Management, Critical Whiteness Studies, Anti-Racism, Settler Colonialism & Its Legacies, Statues, Políticas De La Memoria, Whiteness, and Cultural Studies, Theories of Racism, Critical Whiteness Theory
Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum (with replies).
Read all the contribututions, with all images, here https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-19/death-writing-in-the-colonial-museums
Read all the contribututions, with all images, here https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-19/death-writing-in-the-colonial-museums
Research Interests: Archaeology, Anthropology, Art History, Art Theory, Museum Studies, and 14 moreCultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, African History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Necropolitics, Colonialism, Museum Anthropology, History of Museums, Nigeria, Cultural Anthropology, Decolonization, Biography of Objects, and Antiquities Looting
What are the temporal, political, and imaginative limits of archaeology? How might archaeologists apply their discipline to the most recent past or our contemporary world? Dan Hicks on how a new exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum... more
What are the temporal, political, and imaginative limits of archaeology? How might archaeologists apply their discipline to the most recent past or our contemporary world? Dan Hicks on how a new exhibition at the Pitt Rivers Museum explores these questions and seeks to reframe how we think about archaeology and anthropology in museums today.
Research Interests: Sociology, Archaeology, Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, and 14 moreMuseum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Refugee Studies, Visual Culture, Contemporary History, Archaeological Method & Theory, Museum Anthropology, Museums and Exhibition Design, Migration Studies, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Material Culture, Museum and Heritage Studies, and Refugees and Forced Migration Studies
How authentic are the concepts of the “universal” or “encyclopaedic” museum? A commentary on the idea of the "universal museum" as a myth invented in the 21st century.
Research Interests: Museum Studies, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, Heritage Studies, Museum, and 16 moreMuseum Anthropology, History of Museums, Museum Interpretation, Cultural Heritage Management, Repatriation (Archaeology), World Cultural Heritage, Heritage Politics (Anthropology), Material Culture, Cultural Repatriation, Politics of Museum Representation, Heritage, Repatriation of Indigenous Human Remains, Museum and Heritage Studies, Repatriation, Repatriation (Cultural Objects), and Universal Museum
This is an essay about the connections between the passage of time and the condition of archaeological knowledge. It revisits Tim Ingold’s 1993 paper ‘The Temporality of the Landscape’, considering its relationship with the... more
This is an essay about the connections between the passage of time and the condition of archaeological knowledge. It revisits Tim Ingold’s 1993 paper ‘The Temporality of the Landscape’, considering its relationship with the phenomenological and interpretive archaeologies of the 1990s and what we learn from it today. Engaged not so much in an ‘ontological turn’ as in a kind of archival return, the essay compares Ingold’s discussion of Bruegel’s painting The Harvesters (1565) with an archaeological photograph from 1993. A discussion of the after-effects of performance follows, and four theses about temporality, landscape, modernity and revisiting are put forward: 1) The passage of time transforms archaeological knowledge; 2) Archaeological knowledge transforms the passage of time; 3) An archaeological landscape is an object that is known through remapping; 4) Archaeological knowledge is what we leave behind. The essay concludes that archaeology is best understood not as the study of the temporality of the landscape, as Ingold had argued, but as the study of the temporality of the landscape revisited.
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, and 36 moreAnthropology, Visual Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Philosophical Anthropology, Material Culture Studies, Landscape Archaeology, Anthropology of Knowledge, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Phenomenology, Archaeological Method & Theory, Cultural Landscapes, Landscape History, Archives, Theoretical Archaeology, Philosophy of Time, Materiality (Anthropology), Landscape archaeology (Anthropology), Archaeological Theory, Landscape, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Time, Phenomenology of Temporality, Temporality (Time Studies), Tim Ingold, Temporality, Temporality of Landscape, Archaeological Method and Theory, Arkeoloji, Cultural Landscape, Materiality, Ontological Turn, Arkeologi Sosial, History of Archaeological Theory, Ingold, and Timothy Ingold
A review of the events surrounding the launch of HAU’s expanded edition of Marcel Mauss's The Gift, and reflects on their implications for history and theory in anthropology.
Research Interests: Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, and 20 moreHistory of Anthropology, Gift Giving (Economic Anthropology), Theory (Anthropology), Cultural Anthropology, History of Archaeology, Marcel Mauss, Antropología cultural, Antropología filosófica, Antropología Social, Antropología, Ethnographic Theory, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Antropology Social, Antrophology, Antropoloji, Anthropological Theory, Cultural Antropology, History of Archaeology and Anthropology, Antropology, and Antropologia
Research Interests: Archaeology, Anthropology, Visual Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, and 27 moreMuseum Studies, Material Culture Studies, Actor Network Theory, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Science, Archaeological Method & Theory, History of Museums, Materialism, Materiality (Anthropology), Archaeological Theory, Object Oriented Ontology, Actor Network Theory (ANT), Materiality of Art, Actor-Network-Theory, Cultural Anthropology, Memory and materiality, Material Culture, Object-Oriented philosophy, Materialities, Materiality, Antropología Social, Antropología, Vital Materiality, Material Culture & Materiality, Daniel Miller, Arkeologi, and History of Archaeological Theory
Cite this review as: Hicks, D. 2016. Review of Shannon Lee Dawdy "Patina". Sculpture Journal 25(3): 448-449.
Research Interests: Art History, Historical Archaeology, Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Material Culture Studies, and 24 moreHeritage Conservation, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Contemporary Archaeology, Sculpture, Materiality (Anthropology), Urban Ruins, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, New Orleans, Memory and materiality, Archaeology of Contemporary Past, Modern archaeology, History of architecture, Post Medieval Archaeology, Ruins, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Disaster Archaeology, Materiality, Hurricane Katrina, Historical archeology, Modern Ruins, Architecture and Public Spaces, Patina, and Historical Archaeology
Dan Hicks & Mary C. Beaudry 2010. Introduction. Material Culture Studies: A Reactionary View. In D. Hicks and M.C. Beaudry (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-21.
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Museum Studies, Material Culture Studies, Anthropology Of Art, Materiality (Anthropology), and 8 moreArchaeological Theory, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Cultural Anthropology, Consumption and Material Culture, Material Culture, Materiality, Cultura Material, and Material Culture & Materiality
Stonehenge has a traffic problem. But a new £1.4 billion bypass is not the solution.
Research Interests: Civil Engineering, Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, and 23 moreLandscape Archaeology, Heritage Tourism, Heritage Conservation, Neolithic Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology, Cultural World Heritage Sites, Cultural Heritage Management, World Cultural Heritage, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Rescue Archaeology, Heritage Management, Neolithic Europe, Archaeology of Contemporary Past, Prehistory, Heritage, Tourism in protected areas/World Heritage, World Heritage Site Studies, Museum and Heritage Studies, Stonehenge, World Heritage, ARCHAEOLOGY AND WORLD HERITAGE, UNESCO world heritage, and World Heritage Studies
With the refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of populist extremism, we must defend the teaching of anthropology. And in doing so, we might expand and rethink our conception of "the humanities". (Article in The Conversation)
Research Interests: Anthropology, Education, Social Anthropology, Curriculum Design, Critical Pedagogy, and 14 moreAnthropology of Knowledge, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Educational Anthropology, Pedagogy, Decolonialization, Critical Educational Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology of Education, Decolonial Thought, Decolonization, Pedagogia, Anthropology and Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, and Decoloniality Thought
Research Interests: Anthropology, History of Ideas, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Anthropology, History of Museums, and 16 moreCultural Anthropology, Museums, History of Archaeology, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Pitt Rivers, Dell hymes, Franz Boas, SOMATOLOGY, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Edward Burnett Tylor, Four-field anthropology, George Stocking, St. Louis World's Fair, John Wesley Powell (1834-1902), Daniel G. Brinton, and Paul Broca
A reply to comments by Laurent Olivier, Matt Edgeworth and Tim Ingold on the paper "The Temporality of the Landscape Revisited"
Research Interests:
Cite this paper as: Dan Hicks (2016) Pitt Rivers AD 2065: the Future of Museums, Past and Present. Museums ID 19: 31-37.
Research Interests: Future Studies, Museum Studies, Digital Museum, Museum, Museum Education, and 16 moreMuseum Anthropology, History of Museums, Museums and Exhibition Design, National Museums, Museums and Identity, Museum Interpretation, Futures Studies, Museum Collection history, Museums, Virtual Museums, Future, Pitt Rivers, NEW TECHNOLOGY IN THE MUSEUM, Museum and Heritage Studies, Museum environment, and University of Oxford
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
An overview of historical archaeology in Britain. Cite this paper as: Hicks, D. 2008. Historical archaeology in Britain. In D. M. Pearsall (ed.) Encyclopedia of Archaeology. San Diego: Academic Press, pp. 1318–1327.
Research Interests: Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeology of Contemporary Past, and 19 moreModern archaeology, History of Archaeology, Post Medieval Archaeology, Arkeoloji, British Archaeology, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Postmedieval Archaeology, The Archaeology of the Recent Past, Archéologie, Historic Archaeology, Medieval and Postmedieval Archaeology, Historical archeology, Medieval and Early Modern Archaeology, Early Modern Archaeology, Modern and Contemporary Archaeology, Arkeologi, Archeology, Arkeologi Sosial, and Historical Archaeology
A review of Owen Hatherley's book Militant Modernism for the journal Planning Perspectives.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
"In recent years historians have begun to show renewed interest in studying ‘the material’ dimensions to urban life. This shift has opened up a space for new dialogues between historians and post-medieval archaeologists working on British... more
"In recent years historians have begun to show renewed interest in studying ‘the material’ dimensions to urban life. This shift has opened up a space for new dialogues between historians and post-medieval archaeologists working on British cities. It offers the potential for reassessing approaches to studying the urban past and for experimenting with fresh methodologies. Noting that archaeological perspectives have been largely absent from recent historical accounts of the modern metropolis, in this chapter we explore the potential for pursuing collaborative research that fuses archaeological evidence and thinking with other forms of historical practice to write material histories of London.
The discussion divides into three parts. First, we sketch the post-war development of urban post-medieval archaeology in London, and the range of archaeological collections and excavation sites that relate to the Georgian and Victorian city. Second, we consider some of the ways in which the analysis of these sources might be used in interdisciplinary urban historiography, especially
in the light of methodological approaches developed in North American and Australian urban archaeology. Third, we present a case study that explores how nineteenth-century
household archaeologies in London might be developed, examining some of the complexities and challenges of integrating archaeological methods into the study of households and
localities in the nineteenth-century metropolis. In conclusion we consider the prospects for the development of interdisciplinary approaches to the material remains of London’s modern past."
The discussion divides into three parts. First, we sketch the post-war development of urban post-medieval archaeology in London, and the range of archaeological collections and excavation sites that relate to the Georgian and Victorian city. Second, we consider some of the ways in which the analysis of these sources might be used in interdisciplinary urban historiography, especially
in the light of methodological approaches developed in North American and Australian urban archaeology. Third, we present a case study that explores how nineteenth-century
household archaeologies in London might be developed, examining some of the complexities and challenges of integrating archaeological methods into the study of households and
localities in the nineteenth-century metropolis. In conclusion we consider the prospects for the development of interdisciplinary approaches to the material remains of London’s modern past."
Research Interests:
A review article exploring the idea of improvement in historical archaeology, based on Sarah Tarlow's 2007 book "The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850".
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
D. Hicks 2008. ‘Material Improvements’: the Archaeology of Estate Landscapes in the British Leeward Islands, 1713-1838. In K. Giles and J. Finch (eds) Estate Landscapes: Design, Improvement and Power in the post-medieval landscape.... more
D. Hicks 2008. ‘Material Improvements’: the Archaeology of Estate Landscapes in the British Leeward Islands, 1713-1838. In K. Giles and J. Finch (eds) Estate Landscapes: Design, Improvement and Power in the post-medieval landscape. Woodbridge: Bowdell and Brewer, pp. 205-227
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Historical Archaeology, Structuralism (Architecture), Garden Archaeology, The History of the Bristol Region, World Archaeology, and 8 moreGarden Archaeology & History, Post-Medieval Archaeology, Marxist Archaeology, Modern World Historical Archaeology, Archaeology of Parks and Gardens, Landscape and Garden Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, and Archaeology in Annapolis
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Historical Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Architecture, Cultural Heritage, Heritage Studies, and 16 moreLandscape Archaeology, Historic Preservation, Cultural Heritage Conservation, Vernacular Architecture, Architectural History, Built Environment, Archaeology of Buildings, Architectural Theory, Modern Architecture, Built Heritage (Heritage Studies), Archaeology of Architecture, Architectural Conservation, Archaeology of standing buildings, Arkeoloji, Arkeologi Arsitektur, and Arkeologi
Research Interests: Latin American and Caribbean History, Museum Studies, Latin America and Caribbean, Caribbean History, Caribbean Studies, and 19 moreThe Caribbean, Caribbean Archaeology, West Indies (History), Afro-Caribbean History, History of the Dominican Republic, French Caribbean, Caribbean, Barbados, Stone tools, Latin America and the Caribbean, Curacao, West Indies (Antigua and the Leeward Islands), Curaçao, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Windward Islands, St. Kitts, St. Kitts and Nevis, Jamaican Archaeology, and Saint Lucia
Research Interests: Archaeology, Southwestern United States (Archaeology in North America), North American (Archaeology), Northeastern North America (Archaeology), Ontario Archaeology, and 30 morePrehistoric (Archaeology in Northeastern North America), Aboriginal history in Canada, North American archaeology, Indiana (Prehistoric Archaeology), Southeastern Archaeology (Archaeology in North America), Californian archaeology, Florida Archaeology, North Eastern North America Archaeology, History of Archaeology, Alaska Archaeology, California Archaeology, Nova Scotia Archaeology, Wisconsin Archaeology, American Anthropology and Archaeology, New York Archaeology, North American Archaeology, Midwest, Arkansas Archaeology, Texas Archaeology, Smithsonian Institute, Canadian Archaeology, Pennsylvania Archaeology, Oregon Archaeology, Inuit archaeology/anthropology, Canadian colonial archaeology, British Columbia Archaeology, Archeology, Arizona Prehistory, Ohio Archaeology, Frank Hamilton Cushing, and West Chester
Research Interests: Palaeolithic Archaeology, Medieval Archaeology, British Prehistory (Archaeology), Museum archaeology, British Archaeology, and 8 morePost-Medieval Archaeology, Oxford, University History, University of Oxford, Roman and Iron Age Oxfordshire, Archaeology of Oxford, Archaeology of Oxfordshire, and Medieval Oxfordshire
Research Interests: Collections Management, History of Museums, History of Collections, Museum Collection history, Nineteenth Century Archaeological Collecting Practices, and 13 moreHistory of Collections (Archaeology), Museum archaeology, World Archaeology, History of Archaeology, Pitt Rivers, Museum Collections (Research), Archaeological Archives, Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology, Archaeological Collections Management, Archaeological collections, Augustus Pitt Rivers, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Cambridge, and Pitt Rivers Museum
Research Interests: Neolithic Archaeology, Iron Age Britain (Archaeology), Bronze Age Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Bronze Age Archaeology, and 47 moreIron Age Ireland (Archaeology), Early medieval Britain (Archaeology), Roman Britain, Prehistoric Settlement, British Prehistory (Archaeology), Late Bronze Age archaeology, Iron Age Gaul (Archaeology), Belgian History, Neolithic Ireland, Neolithic France, Stone axes (Archaeology), Archaeological Fieldwork, Prehistoric Europe (Archaeology), Neolithic Europe, Bronze Age (Archaeology), Late Iron Age (Archaeology), Irish Archaeology, Early Bronze Age (Archaeology), Mesolithic/Neolithic, Neolithic Britain and Ireland, Iron Age Britain and Ireland (Archaeology), European Prehistory (Archaeology), Neolithic and Bronze Age Ireland, Bronze Age Denmark, European Archaeology, Iron Age, History of Archaeology, Early Iron Age, Pitt Rivers, British Archaeology, Bronze Age, Welsh History and Culture, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, Romano-British history and archaeology, Jadeite Axe, Neolithic Axes, Scotland, Croatian Archaeology, Scottish Archaeology, Nebra Sky Disc, Stonehenge, Archaeology in Switzerland, Irish archaeology in its European context, French Archeology, Belgian Archaeology, Swiss Archaeology, and Roman Archaeology
Research Interests: Cypriot Archaeology, Anatolian Archaeology, Aegean Bronze Age (Bronze Age Archaeology), Ancient History of Cyprus, Greek Archaeology, and 32 moreAegean Prehistory (Archaeology), Iron Age Greece (Archaeology), Mycenaean era archaeology, Ancient Greek History, Cypriot Bronze Age, Minoan Pottery (Ceramic Analysis), Aegean Archaeology, Minoan art and archaeology, Minoan Archaeology, Cretan Bronze Age, Archaic Greece, Minoan Civilisation, Aegean Late Bronze Age, Aegean Prehistory, Archaeology of Crete, Aegean Bronze Age, Roman Greece, Melos, Early Bronze Age Cyclades, Mycenaean pottery, Aegean Archaeology, Mediterranean Archeology, the island of Crete, Ancient Cypriot Art, Troy, Minoan and Myceanean Archaeology, Minoan Crete, Cyprus Archaeology, Mycenaean Greece, Archaeology of Cyprus, Archaeology of Turkey, Mycenaean period, History of Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology, and Heinrich Schliemann
Research Interests: Archaeology, Museum Studies, Material Culture Studies, Argentina History, History of Chile, and 17 moreArgentina, South America (Archaeology), Peru, Chile, Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Ecuador, Pre-Columbian Art, Archeologia, History of Archaeology, Ecuadorean Archaeology, Precolumbian Cultures, Archeologie, Pre-Columbian Archaeology, Archéologie, Peru Archaeology, Precolumbian Art, and Archeology
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Archaeology, Museum Studies, Museum, Middle East History, Iraqi History, and 43 moreHistory of India, Archaeology of Ancient Israel, Iranian Studies, History of Iran, Museum Anthropology, Malaysia, Pre-Modern Japan, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Siberia, Sri Lanka, Middle East Anthropology, Thailand, Iraq, China, Thai History, Syro-Palestinian archaeology, History of Collections, Japan, Russia (History), Chinese archaeology, India (Anthropology), Babylon, History of Pakistan, History of Colonial India, Cuneiform, Korea (North and/or South), Syria (Archaeology), Iran, India, Cuneiform, History and Archaeology of Assyria, Neo-Babylonian period, Sri Lankan Archaeology, Myanmar, CUNEIFORM STUDIES, Indus Valley (Pakistan) Prehistory and Protohistory, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Palestine (History and Archaeology), Japanese archaeology, Burma Myanmar, Archaeology of Jordan, Sri Lankan history, Siberian Ethnography (Anthropology), and Saudi Arabian History
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Historical Geography, Urban Geography, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Victorian Studies, and 20 moreMuseum Studies, Material Culture Studies, Museum, Urban History, Urban Anthropology, History Of London, Urban Studies, Victorian (Victorian), Modern London, 18th & 19th Centuries, Urban Culture, Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Post Medieval London, 19th Century (History), Urban archaeology, Urban Landscape, Material Culture, 19th Century Britain, London, and Post-Medieval Archaeology
Research Interests: Australian Indigenous Archaeology, Papua New Guinea (Pacific Islands art), Oceania (Archaeology), Oceania (Anthropology), Papua New Guinea, and 24 moreMarshall Islands, Fiji, Aboriginal History in Australia, Pacific Archaeology, New Zealand Archaeology, Pacific History, Hawaiian Studies, Easter Island Archaeology, Solomon Islands, Western Australia-History and Archaeology, Maori history, Palau, Hawaiian Prehistory, New Zealand History, Hawaiian History, Australian historical archaeology, Colonial history of Papua New Guinea, Hawaiian archaeology, Niue, Papua New Guinea archaeology, Pre-Contact Maori Archaeology, Tasmanian History, Tasmanian colonial history, and New Zealand Archeology
Research Interests: Archaeology, Oceania (Archaeology), Pacific Archaeology, Easter Island Archaeology, Pitcairn Island, and 9 moreStone tools, Easter Island, Royal Geographical Society, Rapa Nui, Thor Heyerdahl, ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY OF POLYNESIA AND EASTER ISLAND, Captain James Cook 1728–1779, History and Culture of Easter Island, and Easter Island/Rapa Nui
Research Interests: Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Latin American and Caribbean History, and 24 moreGlobalization, Mesoamerican Archaeology, Migration, Colonialism, Latin America and Caribbean, Caribbean History, South Asian History, Caribbean Studies, Post-Colonialism, Latin American literature, Postcolonial Theory, British Imperial and Colonial History (1600 - ), Latin American History, Archaeology of Architecture, South Asian Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Caribbean Archaeology, Subaltern Studies, Settler Colonial Studies, History of Archaeology, Colonial Discourse, Colonial Studies, Post Colonial Theory, and Archaeology of Colonialism
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Archaeology, Teaching and Learning, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Teacher Education, Museum Studies, and 9 moreCritical Pedagogy, Learning and Teaching, Museum Education, Teaching Methodology, Learning And Teaching In Higher Education, Teaching, Reflective Teaching, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), and English As a Second Language (ESL)
Research Interests: Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Museum Studies, Material Culture Studies, Museum, and 21 moreMuseum Education, History of Museums, Medieval Archaeology, Museums and Exhibition Design, Antiquarianism, Material Culture, Museum Collection history, Biography of artefacts, Victorian England, Iron Age, History of Archaeology, Pitt Rivers, Castles, Romano-British history and archaeology, History of Antiquarianism, Castle Studies, Animal Bones, Samian Ware, Medieval castles, Medieval Castles and Fortresses, and Roman Archaeology
Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Public Archaeology, and 18 moreVictorian Studies, Museum Studies, Urban History, History of Science, Palaeolithic Archaeology, History (Archaeology), History Of London, Post Medieval London, Rescue Archaeology, Archaeological Fieldwork, Urban archaeology, History of Archeology, History of Archaeology, London, Palaeolithic, Archaeological Excavation, Pitt Rivers, and The Archaeology of London
Research Interests:
The Pitt-Rivers Museum holds c. 667 artefacts from Rapa Nui and c. 93 from Pitcairn Island, most of them collected by the Katherine and Scoresby Routledge expedition of 1914/15. Together they provide a key resource for the study of the... more
The Pitt-Rivers Museum holds c. 667 artefacts from Rapa Nui and c. 93 from Pitcairn Island, most of them collected by the Katherine and Scoresby Routledge expedition of 1914/15. Together they provide a key resource for the study of the prehistoric material culture of the two Islands.
Research Interests:
Unrechtskontexte (Contexts of Injustice): dismantling colonial legacies from Berlin to London In 2013, the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund) issued guidance on the treatment of human remains in museum collections, in... more
Unrechtskontexte (Contexts of Injustice): dismantling colonial legacies from Berlin to London
In 2013, the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund) issued guidance on the treatment of human remains in museum collections, in which they introduced a novel concept. The idea of 'Unrechtskontext' (context of injustice) should, they suggested, guide curatorial ethics when assessing the circumstances in which museum collections were acquired. Among considerations here was not just the contexts of the past, but also whether any particular injustice 'continued to have an effect in the present'.
A decade later, this question of the unfinished nature of certain 'contexts of injustice' now lies at the centre of Euro-American debates about the enduring legacies of empire, 'scientific racism', and theories of cultural supremacy. This lecture takes stock of recent events in Europe and North America - from removing statues and un-naming buildings to returning artefacts from colonial museums, but also to ongoing violent regimes of display at the British Museum and now rekindled at Berlin's Humboldt Forum. The lecture asks: How should we understand the 'Unrechtskontexte' of colonial legacies today? By the standards of the time - or by the values that we hold today? And how can these legacies be meaningfully dismantled?
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goethe-annual-lecture-by-dan-hicks-tickets-227734799917
In 2013, the German Museums Association (Deutscher Museumsbund) issued guidance on the treatment of human remains in museum collections, in which they introduced a novel concept. The idea of 'Unrechtskontext' (context of injustice) should, they suggested, guide curatorial ethics when assessing the circumstances in which museum collections were acquired. Among considerations here was not just the contexts of the past, but also whether any particular injustice 'continued to have an effect in the present'.
A decade later, this question of the unfinished nature of certain 'contexts of injustice' now lies at the centre of Euro-American debates about the enduring legacies of empire, 'scientific racism', and theories of cultural supremacy. This lecture takes stock of recent events in Europe and North America - from removing statues and un-naming buildings to returning artefacts from colonial museums, but also to ongoing violent regimes of display at the British Museum and now rekindled at Berlin's Humboldt Forum. The lecture asks: How should we understand the 'Unrechtskontexte' of colonial legacies today? By the standards of the time - or by the values that we hold today? And how can these legacies be meaningfully dismantled?
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goethe-annual-lecture-by-dan-hicks-tickets-227734799917
Research Interests: Anthropology, Historical Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Race and Racism, Critical Race Theory, and 14 moreRace and Ethnicity, Social Justice, Colonialism, Museum Anthropology, Commemoration and Memory, British Empire, Culture Wars, World Cultural Heritage, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Archaeology and politics, Museums, Critical Heritage Studies, Colonialism and Imperialism, and Black Lives Matter
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
8pm Monday 14 November 2016
8pm Monday 14 November 2016
Research Interests:
I'm looking forward to giving this public lecture and masterclass on Tuesday 1 November in Glasgow. It's for for a newly-formed graduate programme for material culture research titled Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for the 21st... more
I'm looking forward to giving this public lecture and masterclass on Tuesday 1
November in Glasgow. It's for for a newly-formed graduate programme for
material culture research titled Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for
the 21st Century, which is led by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and
Humanties at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the Hunterian
Museum and the Leverhulme Trust. The lecture is in the Kelvin Hall Lecture
Cinema, and the event is from 5pm to 7pm. You can sign up for the event,
which is free, on the eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stuff-of-research-masterclass-prof-dan-hicks-tickets-28722764562
November in Glasgow. It's for for a newly-formed graduate programme for
material culture research titled Collections: an Enlightenment Pedagogy for
the 21st Century, which is led by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and
Humanties at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the Hunterian
Museum and the Leverhulme Trust. The lecture is in the Kelvin Hall Lecture
Cinema, and the event is from 5pm to 7pm. You can sign up for the event,
which is free, on the eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-stuff-of-research-masterclass-prof-dan-hicks-tickets-28722764562
Research Interests: Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Museum learning, Museum Studies, Material Culture Studies, and 24 moreMuseum, Anthropology of Knowledge, History of Science, History of Anthropology, Colonialism, Museum Anthropology, History of Museums, Post-Colonialism, Museums and Identity, Museum Interpretation, Museum Ethnography, Decolonization (African History), Heritage Politics (Anthropology), Museum Collection history, Museums, Pitt Rivers, Decolonizing Methodologies, Decolonization, Museum and Heritage Studies, Glasgow, Ethnographic Museums, Post Colonial Theory, Ethnographic Museum Collections, and Pitt Rivers Museum
Research Interests:
This talk will introduce current research into the early archaeological fieldwork of Augustus Henry Lane Fox (later Pitt-Rivers), assemblages from which have been recently re-discovered at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The paper considers the... more
This talk will introduce current research into the early archaeological fieldwork of Augustus Henry Lane Fox (later Pitt-Rivers), assemblages from which have been recently re-discovered at the Pitt Rivers Museum. The paper considers the potential of these collections, made between c. 1864 and 1880, as a resource for writing the material history of archaeological practice, rather than purely the social or intellectual history of archaeological thought.
Research Interests:
The Theft of Presence: on the archaeology of contemporary pasts. How might archaeologists understand contemporaneity? As a single world of presence and absence that can be interpreted through multiple archaeologies (Buchli and Lucas... more
The Theft of Presence: on the archaeology of contemporary pasts.
How might archaeologists understand contemporaneity? As a single world of presence and absence that can be interpreted through multiple archaeologies (Buchli and Lucas 2001)? Or as multiple worlds that emerge through the practice of archaeology? This paper considers this question in two ways. First, it explores the legacies of three 20th-century concepts: ethnology, folklife, and material culture. Second, it presents the implications of two 21st-century alternatives in how archaeologists understand time. In doing so, the paper reflects on what we are left with, a decade on from first CHAT conference in Bristol. It warns that presence, just like history, can be stolen (Goody 2006).
References
Buchli, V. and G. Lucas (eds) 2001. Archaeologies of the contemporary past. London: Routledge.
Goody, J. 2006. The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
How might archaeologists understand contemporaneity? As a single world of presence and absence that can be interpreted through multiple archaeologies (Buchli and Lucas 2001)? Or as multiple worlds that emerge through the practice of archaeology? This paper considers this question in two ways. First, it explores the legacies of three 20th-century concepts: ethnology, folklife, and material culture. Second, it presents the implications of two 21st-century alternatives in how archaeologists understand time. In doing so, the paper reflects on what we are left with, a decade on from first CHAT conference in Bristol. It warns that presence, just like history, can be stolen (Goody 2006).
References
Buchli, V. and G. Lucas (eds) 2001. Archaeologies of the contemporary past. London: Routledge.
Goody, J. 2006. The Theft of History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Museum Studies and Museum
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
17th March 2011, 6pm - 8pm Lecture for Material Life of Things Research Project, Courtauld Institute. With Professor Danny Miller (UCL) as Discussant. This paper reflects upon the status of the idea of 'the fragment' in contemporary... more
17th March 2011, 6pm - 8pm
Lecture for Material Life of Things Research Project, Courtauld Institute.
With Professor Danny Miller (UCL) as Discussant.
This paper reflects upon the status of the idea of 'the fragment' in contemporary interdisciplinary material culture studies. In doing so, it uses anthropological thinking to interrogate how we comprehend the forms that the material, the cultural, and the interdisciplinary can take in the study of things.
More details: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/projects/materiallifeofthings.shtml
Lecture for Material Life of Things Research Project, Courtauld Institute.
With Professor Danny Miller (UCL) as Discussant.
This paper reflects upon the status of the idea of 'the fragment' in contemporary interdisciplinary material culture studies. In doing so, it uses anthropological thinking to interrogate how we comprehend the forms that the material, the cultural, and the interdisciplinary can take in the study of things.
More details: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/projects/materiallifeofthings.shtml
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Britain must give the Benin Bronzes back to Africa – it’s our moral duty The Daily Telegraph 5 November 2020 A curator at Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum explains why we should return African artefacts to their home continent at... more
Britain must give the Benin Bronzes back to Africa – it’s our moral duty
The Daily Telegraph 5 November 2020
A curator at Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum explains why we should return African artefacts to their home continent at long last
The Daily Telegraph 5 November 2020
A curator at Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum explains why we should return African artefacts to their home continent at long last
Research Interests: Art History, Museum Studies, African History, History of West Africa, Africa, and 14 moreWest Africa, Colonialism, History of Museums, African Diaspora, Restitution of Property, Nigeria, Africana Studies, Nigerian History, West African History, Ancient Bronzes, Anti-Colonialism, West African Archaeology, Restitution Issues, and Restitution of Cultural Property
The UK government is trying to draw museums into a fake culture war
The Guardian 15 October 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/the-uk-government-is-trying-to-draw-museums-into-a-fake-culture-war
The Guardian 15 October 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/15/the-uk-government-is-trying-to-draw-museums-into-a-fake-culture-war