From Exploration to Exploitation

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dc.identifier	ECF_book_695
dc.creator	Bombardieri Luca
dc.title	From Exploration to Exploitation. Giovanni Mariti, Domenico Sestini, Antonio Mondaini and the Early History of Cypriote Archaeology
dc.type	Monograph
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	The earliest history of Cypriot archaeology is a horizon still largely dominated by the interests of antiquarianism and the history of collecting, but it undoubtedly constitutes a fundamental chapter in understanding many of the phenomena and current connotations of archaeology in Cyprus through the twentieth century. In fact, the extractivist model of nineteenth and twentieth-century archaeology in Cyprus stimulates a paradigm, explicit in practice, involving foreign expeditions to the island. This stimulus is not unrelated to feeding the logic behind illegal and clandestine digging, which takes the form of a parallel channel of supply for private collecting on the island and beyond, in the vast supposedly post- or de-colonial Western universe. From this perspective, this book analyses a particular moment of transition that constitutes the genuine genesis of European interest in the Antiquity of Cyprus. A moment in which the evidence takes the tangible form of archaeological objects, losing the more ethereal form of scholarly references. We may investigate this gradual change through the practice of three Italian travellers/pseudoarchaeologists who stayed on the island at the end of the eighteenth century. Through their stories, we will try to observe the island’s antiquities as they emerged to their attention, what form they might take and what practices they might produce. Attention, forms, and practices that our travellers passed on to those who followed them in the following two centuries.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi ciprioti
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-799-2
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2024-05-09
dc.dateAccepted	2024-02-08
dc.dateSubmitted	2024-01-10
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-799-2/
dc.identifier.issn	2724-279X
dc.identifier.eissn	2724-3648
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-807-1
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-799-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Antiquarianism
dc.subject	Cyprus
dc.subject	Decolonial studies
dc.subject	Eighteenth century travel memoirs
dc.subject	Exctractive archaeology
dc.subject	History of archaeology

Monograph
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Giovanni Mariti, Domenico Sestini, Antonio Mondaini and the Early History of Cypriote Archaeology

Luca Bombardieri Università di Siena, Italia

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abstract

The earliest history of Cypriot archaeology is a horizon still largely dominated by the interests of antiquarianism and the history of collecting, but it undoubtedly constitutes a fundamental chapter in understanding many of the phenomena and current connotations of archaeology in Cyprus through the twentieth century. In fact, the extractivist model of nineteenth and twentieth-century archaeology in Cyprus stimulates a paradigm, explicit in practice, involving foreign expeditions to the island. This stimulus is not unrelated to feeding the logic behind illegal and clandestine digging, which takes the form of a parallel channel of supply for private collecting on the island and beyond, in the vast supposedly post- or de-colonial Western universe. From this perspective, this book analyses a particular moment of transition that constitutes the genuine genesis of European interest in the Antiquity of Cyprus. A moment in which the evidence takes the tangible form of archaeological objects, losing the more ethereal form of scholarly references. We may investigate this gradual change through the practice of three Italian travellers/pseudoarchaeologists who stayed on the island at the end of the eighteenth century. Through their stories, we will try to observe the island’s antiquities as they emerged to their attention, what form they might take and what practices they might produce. Attention, forms, and practices that our travellers passed on to those who followed them in the following two centuries.

Published

May 9, 2024

Accepted

Feb. 8, 2024

Submitted

Jan. 10, 2024

Language

ISBN (PRINT)

978-88-6969-807-1

ISBN (EBOOK)

978-88-6969-799-2

Number of pages

116

Dimensions

16x23 cm

Keywords

Exctractive archaeology • History of archaeology • Cyprus • Antiquarianism • Eighteenth century travel memoirs • Decolonial studies

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