The Hidden History of a Third of the World: the Collective Biography of Australian and International Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project

Spriggs, Matthew

doi:10.5334/bha-583

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“…Finally, decolonisation can and should involve a critical self-consciousness of disciplinary history, a consideration that has been at the heart of the Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project from its inception (Spriggs 2016).…”

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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania

Spriggs

2022

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Since 2009, her interest in cosmologies and knowledge systems has led her to collaborate with the Vatican Museums' Anima Mundi -Peoples, Arts and Cultures Museum. She culturally reconnected their Indigenous collections with communities around the world, bringing the Indigenous voice into the museum space for exhibitions and catalogues. She edited Australia (2017), the catalogue dedicated to the Vatican's collection, and with Fr Nicola Mapelli PhD published Oceania (2022), the fourth catalogue in the series, the others being Ethnos (2012) and The Americas (2014).

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Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania

Spriggs

2022

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“…As was noted in the 2017 paper laying out the justification for, and background to, the Australian Research Council-funded Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific Laureate Project (henceforth CBAP), that the Pacific and Island Southeast Asian regions had hitherto been almost completely absent from world histories of archaeology (Spriggs 2017a). CBAP had as an anticipated outcome to change this situation through examination and exposition of the forgotten networks of influence linking Pacific scholars to the metropoles of Europe and America, giving Pacific archaeology its proper place with the much more established histories of Pacific anthropology and of Australian archaeology.…”

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The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: Seven Years of the CBAP Project

Spriggs

2023

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

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The Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Project, The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific or 'CBAP' was funded between 2015-2020 and, due to COVID disruptions, associated events continued until the end of 2022. Some of the initial aims included: to create a sub-field of the history of Pacific archaeology; to redefine the development of Australian archaeology within its wider Oceanic context; to re-discover the contribution of both French and German scholars; to recover the considerable amount of archaeological excavation that took place in the Pacific from the 1870s until WWII; to re-conceptualise the perennial issue of trans-Oceanic cultural contacts; to redress the neglect of the role of Indigenous Pacific scholars and of women in archaeology; and to re-engage with descendant communities in the light of our research and its findings. The paper discusses the project's results in light of these and other emerging aims during the last seven years. It also provides a comprehensive bibliography of publications by the Project's main contributors.

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“…Consolidated historiographical research about Pacific archaeology is still a very recent enterprise (Spriggs 2017;Dotte-Sarout et al 2020;Jones et al forthcoming). 1 Just as important consideration has been given to non-Anglophone traditions and literature, highlighting the role of 'hidden' figures-namely indigenous collaborators and women engaged in the disciplinehas been part of the new historiographical agenda in the region.…”

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Pacific Matildas: Finding the Women in the History of Pacific Archaeology

Dotte-Sarout

2021

Bulletin of the History of Archaeology

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In this paper I present the background and rationale for a new research project that aims to rediscover the first women who participated in the development of archaeology in the Pacific, from the 19 th to the mid-20 th century. I discuss how this research is inscribed in the history of women in science, responding to Rossiter's plea to future scholars: to write a history and sociology of science that is more comprehensive by integrating ever more of the hidden women scientists, or 'Matildas'. I consider how a history of these 'Pacific Matildas' can be connected to factors that have been identified as historically keeping women out of science (especially fieldwork-based sciences) as well as keeping them out of historical records about the making of science. After discussing the methodological and conceptual frameworks envisaged for such a project, I present some preliminary results of this research: a short overview of historical figures already identified and a brief examination of one early case-study in the history of the first women engaged in the discipline, that of Adèle de Dombasle in the mid-19 th century. I conclude by highlighting what the first clues we can gather about such stories tell us both about the historical place of women in the field and the place of women in the history written about the field.

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The Hidden History of a Third of the World: the Collective Biography of Australian and International Archaeology in the Pacific (CBAP) Project

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania

Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania

The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: Seven Years of the CBAP Project

Pacific Matildas: Finding the Women in the History of Pacific Archaeology

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