“Wild Worship of a Lost and Buried Past”: Enchanted Archaeologies and the Cult of Kata, 1908–1924

Histories of archaeology traditionally traced the progress of the modern discipline as the triumph of secular disenchanted science over pre-modern, enchanted, world-views. In this article I complicate and qualify the themes of disenchantment and enchantment in archaeological histories, presenting an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Helen Wickstead
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2017-06-01
Series:Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
Online Access:https://www.archaeologybulletin.org/articles/596