Details of selected EDI research projects at the 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Archaeology are highlighted here.
Memorialising Ancestral Landscapes in the Brazilian Northwest Amazon (PARIN脙)
This interdisciplinary British Academy-funded project, led at 香港六合彩中特网 by Manuel Arroyo-Kalin,听channels archaeological, anthropological, and historical approaches to reconstruct Indigenous History in the Northwest Amazon, a region that is well-known ethnographically as the home of a vast multi-ethnic and multi-linguistic indigenous population.听
Participants of the May 2022 intercultural Heritage Making workshop at S茫o Gabriel da Cachoeira | Artistic performance by indigenous artist /writer Rosi Waikhon at SGC-Diocese, May 2022 (excavation in the background) |
Project partners/ collaborating institutions and communities include: 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Archaeology, S茫o Carlos Federal University (UFSCar), Museu da Amaz么nia (MUSA), Museu Goeldi (MPEG), Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), PARIN脙 Stipendiary Indigenous researchers and invited indigenous connoisseurs.
Keywords:听Amazonian archaeology, indigenous history, intercultural research, participatory research
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
听 听 Prof David Wengrow, photographed at the 香港六合彩中特网 Institute of Archaeology听by Tim Jamieson | The Dawn of Everything (Penguin, 2021) bookcover |
The Dawn of Everything, co-authored by David Wengrow and the late David Graeber, and published in 2021, explores the impact of Indigenous critiques upon European modes political thought during the Age of Enlightenment, and how this necessitates a wider rethinking of global history.听
The thrust of this work is to challenge Eurocentric frameworks of analysis in the social and historical sciences (e.g. relating to the origins of social inequality, the nature of democracy and the state, and the rise of 鈥渢he West鈥), and to explore how history is self-consciously produced by people whose capacity to do this has been denied on racist grounds.
The volume appeared on the New York Times bestseller list and was shortlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2022.
Big Picnic: Big Questions - engaging the public with Responsible Research and Innovation on Food Security
The听EC-funded听BigPicnic project which ran from 2016-19听and was co-led at 香港六合彩中特网 by Theano Moussouri,听with 22 international partners听including the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Botanic Gardens Conservation, explored food security issues in the context of botanic garden education by linking food security, climate change and plant diversity,听shaping debate and public policy
听听 Co-creation session run jointly by farmers' groups and the Tooro Botanic Garden, Tooro, Uganda听 | 听 Science Cafe at Bergamo Botanic Garden, Bergamo, Italy听 |
Through collaboration and discussion, BigPicnic helped the public to better understand food security issues and allowed attendees at project events to express opinions on a potentially sensitive topic in a supportive environment,听empowering citizens to see themselves as co-creators of sustainable food futures.
Keywords:听Food security, food system, food heritage, intangible cultural heritage, food justice, sustainable transitions of the food system, participatory action research, co-creation of knowledge, Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)
Egypt's Dispersed Heritage
From the 1880s to the 1980s hundreds of excavations were carried out across Egypt by British鈥痮rganisations. While many of the objects they discovered remained in Egypt, a large proportion were distributed to around 350 museums in 27 countries across the world. 听
Comic series produced in 2020 鈥楴asser, Heba and our dispersed heritage鈥, drawn by Nasser Junior and co-conceived with 香港六合彩中特网 project research Heba Abd el Gawad.听 | Dr Alice Stevenson giving the 2022 Charles Nicholson Lecture at the University of Sydney |
The AHRC-funded project 鈥楨gypt鈥檚 Dispersed Heritage: views from Egypt鈥, led at 香港六合彩中特网 by Alice Stevenson, partnered with five UK museums and archives to communicate this history of dispersal and create opportunities for dialogue with modern Egyptian communities using cultural reference points and modes of communication of relevance to those groups.听
This was achieved through a programme of interventions delivered between 2020 and 2022, co-designed, developed, and delivered with them, including street performances, comic strips, and educational resources all in Egyptian Arabic.听
Keywords:听Museums, decolonization, comics, histories of collection, community engagement
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