Past Meets Present: Archaeologists Partnering with Museum Curators, Teachers, and Community Groups

ISBN-13: 9780387476667 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 466 str.

Jr. John H. Jameson; Sherene Baugher

Opis

In the face of an increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are starting to collaborate with historians, educators, interpreters, museum curators, exhibit designers, landscape architects, and other cultural resource specialists to devise the best strategies for translating an explosion of archaeological information for the public. In turn, some communities are partnering with archaeologists to become active players in the excavation, interpretation, and preservation of their heritage. The last decade has witnessed numerous applications of public interpretation and outreach models and an increased interest in establishing partnerships between professional practitioners in public interpretation and educational institutions such as museums and schools. These developments have occurred in the context of a realization that community-based partnerships are the most effective mechanism for long-term success. It is clear that there is a need for a volume that addresses these latest trends and provides case studies of successful partnerships.

Spis treści

Public Interpretation, Outreach, and Partnering: an Introduction - John H. Jameson Jr. and Sherene Baugher Part 1. Historic Sites and Museums 1. Delivering the Archaeological Message: the Louisbourg Experience - Bruce Fry (Parks Canada) 2. Interpreting a Vanished City: Translating Archaeological Discoveries into Public Exhibits - Henry M. Miller (St. Mary’s City) 3. The Whole Site is the Artifact: Interpreting the St. John’s Site, St. Mary’s City, Maryland - Silas D. Hurry and Dorsey Bodeman (St Mary’s City) 4. Community-based Public Archaeology and Outreach at Port Arthur World Heritage Site, Tasmania – Jody Steele, Greg Jackman, Julia Clark, and Richard Tuffin (Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority, Tasmania) Part 2. Ethnic Communities 5. Engaging Local Communities in Archaeology: Observations from a Maya site in Yucatán, Méxicolisa - Lisa Breglia (Wesleyan University) 6. 'The Other from Within: A Commentary.'– Whitney Battle-Baptiste (Cornell University) 7. Archaeological Outreach and Indigenous Communities: A Personal Commentary - Lance Foster (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska; Native Rights, Land and Culture, Office of Hawaiian Affairs) 8. New Ways of Looking at the Past: Archaeological Education at the Houston Museum of Natural Science - Patricia (Pam) Wheat (Houston Museum of Natural Science), Dorothy Lippert (Smithsonian Institution), Dirk Van Tuerenhout (Houston Museum of Natural Science), and Eliza Phelps (Houston Museum of Natural Science) 9. Building Bridges through Public Anthropology in the Haudenosaunee Homeland Brooke Hansen and Jack Rossen (Ithaca College) 10. Metepenagiag: A First Nation of Three Thousand Years - Madeline Augustine (Metepenagiag Heritage Park), Christopher Turnbull (Parks Canada), PatriciaAllen (Parks Canada), and Pamela Ward (Metepenagiag Heritage Park) Part 3. Universities 11. Outport Archaeology: Community Archaeology in Newfoundland - Peter E. Pope and Stephen F. Mills (Memorial University of Newfoundland) 12. Partnering with the Public: Community Outreach as a Component of College Archaeology Courses - Sherene Baugher (Cornell University) 13. Partners in Preservation: The Binghamton University Community Archaeology Program (CAP) - Nina Versaggi (Binghamton University) 14. Archaeology to the Lay Public in Brazil: Three Experiences - Pedro Paulo A. Funari, (University at Caminas, Sao Paulo), Nanci Vieira de Oliveira (University of Rio de Janeiro), and Elizabete Tamanini (Instituto Educacional Luterano de Santa Catarina [IELUSC], Brazil) Part 4. Public Schools 15. Public Archeology in the Baltimore Schools - Patrice L. Jeppson and George H. Brauer (Baltimore City Schools) 16. The Captive versus non-captive: strategies for formal and informal archaeological outreach programs - Carol J. Ellick (SRI Foundation) 17. Adventures in Archaeology at the Ontario Heritage Trust- Dena Doroszenko (Ontario Heritage Trust) 18. Excavating the Past: 20 Years of Archaeology on Long Island, NY with Students - Gaynell Stone (Suffolk County Archaeological Association) 19.Transportation Collections: On the Road to Good Public Education - Ann-Eliza Lewis (Massachusetts Historical Commission) Part 5. Public Agencies and Professional Organizations 20. Parks Canada and Public Archaeology in Atlantic Canada - Denise Hansen (Parks Canada Atlantic Service Centre, Halifax, NS) and Jonathan Fowler (Armbrae Academy, Halifax, NS) 21. Fostering Emotional and Intellectual Connections to Resource Meanings for Communities and Teache

Blurb

In these times of decreasing funding to humanities and social sciences, program directors are reluctant to undertake outreach projects that they assume require large budgets. The selected case studies in Past Meets Present, however, reflect modest start-up costs, demonstrating that success need not be tied to big bank rolls. The lesson to be derived from these modestly funded projects is that peoples’ attitudes and initiatives make the difference. Focusing on a broad range of successful public archaeological programs in schools and local communities, this book addresses a wide range of developments and standards for effective public interpretation, education, and outreach in archaeology.

Past Meets Present provides the reader with models for implementing public outreach programs with an emphasis on collaborative partnerships. Only when archaeologists are willing to reach out to people in other professions and work with and learn from the community can successful partnerships be formed. Past Meets Present describes effective models of collaboration that enable the archaeology of the past to meet the educational and interpretive needs of the present.

Cover photo courtesy of John H. Jameson, Jr. and the painting "Unlocking the Past" by Martin Pate is courtesy of the Southeast Archaeological Center, National Park Service.