Variant scholarship: Ancient texts in modern contexts

ISBN-13: 9789464270464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Neil Brodie; Morag M. Kersel; Josephine Munch Rasmussen

O autorze

Neil Brodie was a Research Associate on the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on issues concerning the market in cultural objects, with more than fifty papers and book chapters devoted to the subject. Morag M. Kersel is Associate Professor of Anthropology at DePaul University. In addition to participating in archaeological excavations and surveys in Israel, Jordan, and Palestine, she is interested in the relationship between cultural heritage law, archaeological sites and objects, and local interaction. She also works on the public display and interpretation of archaeological artifacts in institutional spaces. She has published a number of articles and is the co-author (with Christina Luke) of U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology: Soft Power, Hard Heritage (2013) and co-editor (with M.T. Rutz) of Archaeologies of Text: Archaeology, Technology, and Ethics (2014). Josephine Munch Rasmussen is a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research NIKU. She is interested in academic practices and research ethics, the history of institutions and collections, and the international trade in forged, stolen, and dubious antiquities and manuscripts. Her work is transdisciplinary, and she has published within fields such as archaeology and heritage, manuscript studies, museum studies, legal studies, and media studies.