Graham Connah

Writing about Archaeology (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Graham Connah offers an overview of archaeological authorship: its diversity, its challenges, and its methodology. Based on his own experiences, he presents his personal views about the task of writing about archaeology. The book is not intended to be a technical manual. Instead, Connah aims to encourage archaeologists who write about their subject to think about the process of writing. He writes with the beginning author in mind, but the book will be of interest to all archaeologists who plan to publish their work. Connah's overall premise is that those who write about archaeology need to be less concerned with content and more concerned with how they present it. It is not enough to be a good archaeologist. One must also become a good writer and be able to communicate effectively. Archaeology, he argues, is above all a literary discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139793483
• Artikelnr.: 39552614

Autorenporträt

The author was born in Cheshire, educated at the Wirral Grammar School, served on a destroyer in the Mediterranean, read history and archaeology at Cambridge University, and worked there as a research assistant. After experience on numerous excavations in Britain, including as assistant director and director, in 1961 he went to Nigeria, where he spent ten years excavating and on fieldwork. In 1971, he moved to the University of New England in Australia, founding the archaeology department there and later becoming its foundation professor. He returned to Nigerian fieldwork in 1978 and 1981 and subsequently excavated in Egyptian Nubia and Uganda. He also contributed to Australian historical archaeology and founded the journal Australasian Historical Archaeology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, MA (Cantab), D.Litt (UNE), and holds the Order of Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Creating the canon: the integral role of writing in archaeology
2. Learning from others: archaeological writers past and present
3. Readership determines form: for whom are we writing?
4. Turning data into text: images of the past
5. The process of writing: 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration
6. Visual explanation: pictures that should talk
7. Pleasing everyone: writing for different types of publication
8. Publishers, editors and referees: devils incarnate or guardian angels?
9. The publication process: creating a quality product
10. The aftermath: reviewers and readers.