| Author | New ebook: Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement - free download - lots of good stuff |
Andy B
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|  Posted 25-11-2019 at 14:47
New from Access Archaeology: Public Archaeology - Arts of Engagement
Edited by Howard Williams, Caroline Pudney, and Afnan Ezzeldin with a Foreword by Sara Perry
Lots of stuff relevant to us - read on for the contents:
Howard Williams writes: How should communities be engaged with archaeological research and how are new projects targeting distinctive groups and deploying innovative methods and media? In particular, how are art/archaeological interactions key to public archaeology today? Addressing these timely questions, we proudly present the brand-new book: Public Archaeology: Arts of Engagement which appears in the fabulous Archaeopress Access Archaeology series.
Following the 2nd University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference, 5 April 2017, Dr Caroline Pudney and I teamed up with former student Afnan Ezzedin to take the research presented forward to publication. We have crafted a proceedings which combines distinctive and select contributions from (undergraduate and Masters) archaeology students together with a range of original investigations and evaluations from academics and heritage practitioners.
The main body of the book is split into 3 sections. ‘The Art of Engagement: Strategies and Debates in Public Archaeology’ contains 8 chapters exploring different ways in which strategies are being deployed in public engagement and how we evaluate our practices.
For example, I have co-authored a chapter in here which draws on the conference paper and essay by Rachel Alexander; we evaluate the much-lauded Operation Nightingale’s dialogues with early medieval warriors. Other former Chester students tackle the relationship between homelessness and archaeology, the nature of community archaeology, and how we evaluate community archaeology projects.
The second section – ‘Arts in Public Archaeology: Digital and Visual Media’, incorporates 6 chapters, each exploring different means of public engagement and evaluating their potential and challenges.
My chapter in this section, for example, critically reviews my Archaeodeath blog from its inception in 2013 to the end of 2018 while other chapters consider the merits and challenges of vlogging, podcasting, and community projects deploying visual media and recording ancient art and graffiti.
The third and final section – ‘Art as Public Archaeology’ – has 4 chapters, considering different visual media as subject and strategy for public and community projects and how children and adults can be engaged in archaeology through artistic practices.
The Afterword by Dr Seren Griffiths identifies that all archaeology should have a ‘public’ dimension, and that creativity and playfulness must be key ingredients of good public archaeology.
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/21/out-now-public-archaeology-arts-of-engagement/
CONTENTS:
Foreword - Sara Perry
Introduction: Public Archaeologies as Arts of Engagement - Howard Williams
From Archaeo-Engage to Arts of Engagement:Conference to Publication - Howard Williams with Rachel Alexander, Robyn Bursnell, Jack Cave, Aaron Clarke, Afnan Ezzeldin, Jonathan Felgate, Bryony Fisher, Bethan Humphries, Shaun Parry, annah Proctor, Mona Rajput, Calum Richardson and Becky Swift
The Art of Engagement: Strategies and Debates in Public Archaeology
The Benefits of Archaeology - Shaun Parry
‘Dig Society’: Funding Models and Sustainability in Community Archaeology - Matt Beresford
Engage thy Neighbour: Perspectives in Community Archaeology - Bethany Humphries
An Archaeology of Life on the Streets - Bryony Fisher
Dialogues with Early Medieval ‘Warriors’ - Howard Williams and Rachel Alexander
Public Archaeology at Bryn Celli Ddu: Sharing Prehistory - Sanaa Hijazi, Courtney Mainprize, Maranda Wareham, Sian Bramble, Ben Edwards & Seren Griffiths
Evaluating Community Archaeology - Emma Stringfellow
Instrumentalised Public Archaeology: Cease and Desist? -
Caroline Pudney
Arts in Public Archaeology: Digital and Visual Media
Archaeodeath as Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology - Howard Williams
Comics, Creativity and Community: Graphic Narrative in Public Heritage and Beyond - John G. Swogger
Vox Archaeo: Podcasting the Past - Tristan Boyle
The Art of Balancing Intrigue and Integrity:
The Risks and Rewards of Public Archaeology - Marc Barkman-Astles
Being Shaped by Engagement: Reflections on Academic ‘YouTubing’ - Chloë N. Duckworth
Archaeogaming as Public Archaeology - Afnan Ezzeldin
Art as Public Archaeology
Playful Encounters: Engaging Children in Public Archaeology -
Aaron Clarke
Reaching Communities through the Stories on the Walls:
Graffiti Surveys, Participation and Public Engagement -
Ellen McInnes
Visualising Heritage Complexity: Comic Books, Prehistoric Rock-Art and the Cochno Stone - Kenneth Brophy and Hannah Sackett
Dig! Arts Access Project: Finding Inspiration in the Park -
Melanie Giles and Karina Croucher
The book is available as a free download or paper copy
Sara Perry writes: I was honoured to be asked to write the foreword for this impressive collection, which I believe is truly unique in terms of the range of contributors and the constructively critical nature of all of their contributions. This gave me the opportunity to reflect on an event that has haunted me for the past two years - a very personal and embarrassing public experience that shaped me profoundly as a practitioner.
It was not the first time that a session that I've led has gone unexpectedly off course, but it was unique in the humiliation that I was subjected to, and the lack of empathy displayed by senior members of the audience. That experience captured within it many of my concerns about how we engage in critical public archaeology and what expectations we do and do not have for studying the consequences of our public/community practices.
I hope you might take the time to read the volume overall, not least because it blends a range of different communication styles with insights from junior through to senior archaeologists and heritage practitioners. It's a model for future publications of this sort and it offers much motivation for future critical community and public archaeologies.
https://saraperry.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/critical-public-archaeologies/
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| Posted 25-11-2019 at 15:16
Answering my own question - what's the image on the cover:
A mural on the walls of an exercise yard at Parc Prison in Bridgend produced by the prisoners as part of the Heritage Graffiti project (see page 116)
The mural followed archaeology workshops and was painted on the stark concrete walls of an exercise yard within the prison with the support of a professional graffiti artist.
(Photo: Ryan Eddleston)
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Andy B
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| Posted 26-11-2019 at 00:00
We're in it! (page 24)
Jonathan Felgate took a similar tack but contextualised these archaeological initiatives with his paper ‘What Can You Do For Us? Citizen Science in Archaeology’. He outlined
how the specialisation and professionalisation of archaeology had restricted amateur participation.
Felgate identified the potential of working with digitising finds and landscapes to allow amateurs to participate in archaeological research from their own homes. Examples might include the Megalithic Portal, and the aforementioned Thames Discovery Programme as well as the ACCORD (Archaeology Community Co-Production of Research Data) project in which communities create 3D digital visualisations of heritage sites.
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| Posted 26-11-2019 at 09:53
Thanks for this Andy, should be an interesting read.
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| Posted 20-12-2019 at 12:58
Good production from Howard. Inspired me to do same with the booklet.
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