Dear Cornelius,
how are you defining popular culture? Does this mean representations that are
not controlled by archaeologists, or simply representations that have a mass
audience? Does Time team count? Does Agatha Christie? Is it something you see
when you aren't lookijgn for archaeology (so as to discount heritage presentation
which is meant to be popular culture? Not trying to be awkard (honest) just
want to bend my mind around the things you are interested in.
thanks
Sarah
ps - I found your site a bit slow to load, any chance you could resample the
images a bit more? S
>Hello all,
>
>this is a call for comments/suggestions/etc on my current EU-funded project
>which is about "The portrayal of archaeology in contemporary popular
>culture - opportunity or obstacle for the promotion of cultural heritage?"
>
>Archaeologists themselves have often felt uneasy about their image in
>popular culture. My study will investigate what the popular image of
>archaeology actually looks like and if and how it stands in the way of
>promoting archaeology/cultural heritage. In order to give the results wider
>relevance, a comparative perspective will be chosen and fieldwork will be
>conducted in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
>
>If you know of any particularly interesting or unexpected appearances of
>archaeology in popular culture, or if you have strong opinions about the
>usefulness (or uselessness) of the popular image of archaeology, please let
>me know! The same applies to any existing studies you are aware of (but
>maybe I am not). So far I have found a lot of work on the situation in
>Germany and some on Sweden but not very much at all for the UK. To hear
>about research elsewhere would also be interesting for me, and I have
>already had some contact to colleagues in the US.
>
>Project web page: http://www.raa.se/forskning/popkult_eng.asp
>
>Thanks!
>
>Cornelius
>Riksantikvariämbetet, Stockholm
>http://members.chello.se/cornelius/
>
>
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