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Megalithic monuments --- Antiquarians --- Monuments mégalithiques --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Congresses. --- History --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Monuments mégalithiques --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Congrès

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Historiography --- Archaeology --- Antiquarians --- Historiographie --- Archéologie --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Political aspects --- History --- France --- Aspect politique --- Histoire --- History, Local. --- Histoire locale --- Archéologie --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Nationalisme et historiographie --- Antiquités --- 1800-.... --- 19e siècle

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The term antiquarianism refers to engagement with the material heritage of the past-an engagement that preceded the modern academic discipline of archaeology. Antiquarian activities result in the elaboration of particular social behaviors and the production of tools for exploring the collective memory. This book is the first to compare antiquarianism in a global context, examining its roots in the ancient Near East, its flourishing in early modern Europe and East Asia, and its manifestations in nonliterate societies of Melanesia and Polynesia. By establishing wide-reaching geographical and historical perspectives, the essays reveal the universality of antiquarianism as an embodiment of the human mind and open new avenues for understanding the representation of the past, from ancient societies to the present.

Antiquarians --- Material culture. --- Archaeology and history. --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie et histoire --- History --- Histoire --- History. --- Material culture --- Archaeology and history --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Culture matérielle --- Archéologie et histoire --- Antiquaries --- Historians --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- Antiquarians - History

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Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a while. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- Historiography --- Antiquarians --- Historiographie --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- History --- Histoire --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Historiography. --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- 904 --- Culturele overblijfselen uit historische tijden. Antiquitates --- 904 Culturele overblijfselen uit historische tijden. Antiquitates --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Antiquaries --- Historians --- Historiography - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Antiquarians - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Great Britain - History - To 1485 - Historiography --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 18th century

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Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between “indigenous” and “colonial” archaeologies has obscured the intense and dynamic interaction between these seemingly different endeavours. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the Mediterranean and the Americas. Both regions host robust pre-modern antiquarian traditions that have continued to develop during periods of colonialism. In both regions, moreover, colonial encounters have been mediated by the antiquarian practices and preferences of European elites. The two regions also exhibit salient differences. For example, Europeans claimed the “antiquities” of the eastern Mediterranean as part of their own, “classical,” heritage, whereas they perceived those of the Americas as essentially alien, even as they attempted to understand them by analogy to the classical world. These basic points of comparison and contrast provide a framework for conjoint analysis of the emergence of hybrid or cross-bred antiquarianisms. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is a human universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation.

Archaeology and history. --- Archaeology --- Antiquarians --- Antiquities --- Historiography --- Archéologie et histoire --- Archéologie --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Philosophy --- History. --- Collection and preservation --- Philosophie --- Histoire --- Archäologie. --- Altertumswissenschaft. --- Antiquarians. --- Historiography. --- Collection and preservation. --- Philosophy. --- Antiquités --- Historiographie --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Collections et conservation --- Etudes transculturelles --- Archéologie et histoire --- Archéologie --- Spécialistes d'histoire ancienne --- Antiquités --- Archaeology and history --- Archeology --- Antiquaries --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- Historical criticism --- History --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Authorship --- Criticism --- E-books --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Historians --- Material culture