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Conference paper (unpublished)
Bodies of power, bodies of chaos: Occupational stereotyping of disability in Middle Kingdom Egypt
This conference brings together an international team of scholars in a collaborative effort to investigate historical bodies in relations of comparisons and negotiations, to engage in dialogue beyond disciplinary boundaries. Participants were asked to explore how four specific concepts – historical bodies, relations, comparisons and negotiations – can be useful...Maitland , Margaret
Middle Kingdom Egypt, Egypt, Disability , Egyptology, Body, and Stereotyping
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Confronting colonial histories and legacies in Egyptian and Sudanese collections at National Museums Scotland
Maitland, Margaret
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Did the Picts disappear? Beyond colonial approaches to the Viking Age in Scotland
Maldonado, Adrián
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Expert investigators: Uncovering unacknowledged Egyptian contributions to archaeology in 19th century archives
Narratives about early Egyptology have typically been framed in terms of the heroic efforts of adventurous collectors and brilliant scholars, few of whom acknowledged the debt owed to the Egyptians upon whose local knowledge and labour they relied. However, the innovative Scottish archaeologist Alexander Henry Rhind (1833–1863), in summarizing the...Maitland, Margaret
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2010
Conference paper (unpublished)
The circulation of museum objects
The paper discusses the spaces of production and use of a photographic image, depicting two African elephants and their human attendant, produced in the Royal Scottish Museum in 1907. The translation of the image and its appropriation into different material forms – as photographic print, half-tone newsprint illustration, and embellished...Swinney, Geoffrey N