Gerald Lankester Harding

Tufnell, Olga

doi:10.1179/lev.1980.12.1.iii

Levant

1980

DOI: 10.1179/lev.1980.12.1.iii

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Gerald Lankester Harding

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“…By that point Harding had been excavating in the Middle East for ten years. His archive reflects the fact that he was known amongst the archaeological and political community for his interest in the customs of the Bedouin workforce and the Arabic language -qualities later noted in obituaries of him (Anon., n. d.; Starkey, 1936a;Tufnell 1980;Winnett, 1980). An anonymous unpublished biography of Harding in his archive adds insight into the nature of his working relationship with the Bedouin employed on the excavations in which he took part.…”

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Margaret Murray’s Meat Curry

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IntroductionThis is a story of archaeology and empire and food. On a folded piece of paper tucked inside a black-covered volume of recipes belonging to the archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding are handwritten recipes for 'Meat Curry' and 'Dhall'. At the bottom of the page are the words: 'Written for me at Jerash in 1937 by M. A. Murray ' (Murray, 1937). This article will analyse the writer, the recipient and the recipes to explore identity and transformation in the history of archaeology.Scholars are pulling apart the overarching narrative of imperial domination to analyse the experiences and histories of those who for a generation or generations lived within and between British colonial/imperial contexts (e. g. Lambert & Lester, 2006;Jasanoff, 2006). These histories present the British imperial experience as one of interconnectivity and overlapping financial, political, social and cultural networks. The bulk of the experiences they analyse are those of the colonial administrator, the planter, the merchant, the soldier, the missionary, the wife. The history presented here will focus on the archaeologist. Specifically, it presents the recipes as emblematic of the experiences of Margaret Alice Murray and Gerald Lankester Harding, who were British but grew up outside of Britain. They knew, intimately, a different culture, language and food. This paper highlights Murray and Harding's backgrounds -ones in which curry was prevalent -and examines the foreign contexts in which they worked to analyse the recipes' evolution and transmission. The movement of both archaeologists and these recipes feeds into an increasing interest in food as a mode of exploring connections between cultures (e. g. Collingham, 2006; LeongSalobir, 2011) and as a symbol of transnational identity (e. g. Sellick, 2010: 9-17). Introducing Margaret Murray and Gerald Lankester HardingMargaret Alice Murray (Fig. 1)

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“…comm. M. A. C. Macdonald;Tufnell, 1980;Winnett, 1980). Aged 25, he embarked on what became a lifelong career in archaeology.…”

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