Skeates, R: Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology

List of Illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; I. Histories of public archaeology; 1 John Carman: Towards an international comparative history of archaeological heritage management; 2 Hilary Allester Soderland: America s cherished reserves: the enduring significance in the USA of the 1916 National Park Organic Act; 3 Suzie Thomas: Archaeologists and metal-detector users in England and Wales: past, present, and future; 4 Robin Skeates: Making sense of the history of archaeological representation; 5 Pedro Paulo A. Funari and Marcia Bezerra: Public archaeology in Latin America; 6 Dilip K. Chakrabarti: Archaeology and politics in the Third World, with special reference to India; II. Researching public archaeology; 7 Tim Murray: Writing histories of archaeology; 8 Laurajane Smith and Emma Waterton: Constrained by commonsense: the authorized heritage discourse in contemporary debates; 9 William E. Boyd: A frame to hang clouds on : cognitive ownership, landscape, and heritage management; 10 Mary-Cate E. Garden: Living with landscapes of heritage; 11 Fred L. McGhee: Participatory action research and archaeology; 12 Neil Brodie: Uncovering the antiquities market; 13 Morag M. Kersel: The value of a looted object: stakeholder perceptions in the antiquities trade; III. Managing public archaeological resources; 14 Anthony Pace: From heritage to stewardship: defining the sustainable care of archaeological places; 15 John Schofield, Rachael Kiddey, and Brett Lashua: People and landscape; 16 Adrian Praetzellis: CRM archaeology: the view from California; 17 Stephen Trow and Jane Grenville: Agriculture, environmental conservation, and archaeological curation in historic landscapes; 18 Hedley Swain: Archive archaeology; IV. Working at archaeology with the public: principles, practices, and debates; Archaeologists as professional public servants; 19 Timothy Darvill: Archaeology as a profession; 20 Barbara J. Little: Public benefits of public archaeology; 21 Michael Shakir

Robin Skeates is Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies in the Department of Archaeology at Durham University.; Carol McDavid is Executive Director at the Community Archaeology Research Institute, Inc. (CARI) in Houston, Texas. ; John Carman is Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Heritage Valuation at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.

This is a book that archaeologists in many periods and parts of the world should have on their shelves. Madeleine Hummler, Antiquity