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Malinda Stafford Blustain, Ryan Wheeler - Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology, Inbunden

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Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology

Av Malinda Stafford Blustain, Ryan Wheeler

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Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). The only archaeology museum that is part of an American high school, it also did cutting-edge research from the 1930s through the 1970s, ultimately returning to its core mission of teaching and learning in the twenty-first century. Essays explore the early history and notable contributions of the museum’s directors and curators, including a tour de force chapter by James Richardson and J. M. Adovasio that interweaves the history of research at the museum with the intriguing story of the peopling of the Americas. Other chapters tackle the challenges of the 1990s, including shrinking financial resources, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and relationships with American Indian tribes, and the need to revisit the original mission of the museum, namely, to educate high school students. Like many cultural institutions, the RSPM has faced a host of challenges throughout its history. The contributors to this book describe the creative responses to those challenges and the reinvention of a museum with an unusual past, present, and future.
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Malinda Stafford Blustain is the former director of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology. Ryan Wheeler is the director of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology. He is a former editor of the Florida Anthropologist.

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“The Robert S. Peabody Museum, Phillips Academy, and its faculty, students, and affiliates have played important roles in the history of Americanist archaeology for a century. The excellent essays in this volume chronicle the fluctuating history of the institution as a museum, science center, and teaching institution.”—Don D. Fowler, Mamie Kleberg Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno, and past president of the Society for American Archaeology“Behold, dear reader! You hold the rarest of literary creatures—an honest institutional historiography. This is a remarkable history of a history, a bold narrative that critically engages authentic sources and key particulars about the Robert S. Peabody Museum, synthesized as they should be, warts and all.”—David Hurst Thomas, curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History“This is an excellent book on the history not only of one of the treasured institutions of archaeology in the United States but of the many colorful people who worked there. Their collective legacy in archaeology is almost unparalleled. Those of us who are interested in the history of American archaeology must have this book on our shelves.”—Michael J. O’Brien, provost at Texas A&M University–San Antonio

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