Being a Nautical Archaeologist

Anthropology 685

Spring 2007

 


Monday, 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.; Room 105

 Dr. Filipe Vieira de Castro

Office 105A Anthropology Building, Tel. 845-6220, E-Mail: fvcastro@neo.tamu.edu

Office hours: 2-3 Friday or by appointment

 

 

Readings

 

Week 1 – Introduction

Readings (for Week 3):

Bass, George F., “A Plea for Historical Particularism in Nautical Archaeology” in Richard Gould, Shipwreck Anthropology, Albuquerque: University of Mexico Press, 1983: 91-105.

Crisman, Kevin, (Book Review: Archaeology and the Social History of Ships, Richard Gould, 2000), Society for Historical Archaeology (2002) 67.2: 377-378.

Readings (for Week 5):

Texas A&M University Graduate Catalog

 

Week 3 – Studying Nautical Archaeology

Readings (for Week 7):

Eco, Umberto, Come si fa una tesi di laurea, Milano: Tascabili Bompiani, 1977.  (LB2369 .E28)

Day, Robert, How to Write and Publish a Scientific Paper, Phoenix: Orix Press, 1998.

 

Week 4 – Getting Started

Readings (for Week 9):

Agre, Phil, Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students. Department of Information Studies, UCLA (http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html, October 2006)

 

Week 5 – Effectiveness I

Readings (for Week 11):

Watson, P. and C. Todeschini, The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities – From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums, London: Public Affairs Books, 2006.

 

Week 6 – Effectiveness II

Readings (for Week 11):

Chippindale, Christopher and David W. J. Gill, “Material Consequences of Classical Collecting” in American Journal of Archaeology (2000) 104.3: 463-511.

ICOM Code of ethics for Museums

S.A.F.E. and other organizations:  http://www.savingantiquities.org/index.php

 

Week 7 – Effectiveness III

Readings (for Week 12):

Goold, James, “A Question Now Answered: ‘Who Owns Sunken Spanish Shipwrecks?’”  INA Quarterly (2001) 28.4: 12.16.

 

 

Week 8 – Effectiveness IV

Readings (For Week 12):

UNESCO Convention for the Preservation of the Underwater Cultural Heritage

 

Week 9 – Effectiveness V

Readings (for Week 12):

Bass, George F.  “The Men Who Stole the Stars,” INA Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 2, 11.

Bass, George F.  “After the Diving is Over,” Underwater Archaeology Proceedings, Toni Carrell, ed., Society for Historical Archaeology, 1990, 10-13.

 

Week 10 – Effectiveness VI

Readings (for Week 12):

Throckmorton, Peter.  “The World’s Worst Investment: The Economics of Treasure Hunting with Real Life Comparisons,” Underwater Archaeology Proceedings, Toni Carrell, ed., Society for Historical Archaeology, 1990, 6-10.

 

Week 11 – Ethics I

Readings (for Week 13):

Kuhn, Thomas The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

 

Week 12 – Ethics II

Readings (for Week 14):

Bass, G.F., “is Money the Root of all Evil?” in Gordon P. Watts, Jr., ed., Underwater Archaeology: The Chalenge Before Us.  The Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Underwater Archaeology. Fathom Eight: San Marino, California, 1981.

Fagan, Garret G., “Far-Out Television,” in Archaeology (May/June 2003) :47-50.

Romey, Kristin M., “Pseudoscience in Cyberspace,” in Archaeology (May/June 2003) :51-52.

Powell, Eric A., “Bogus Books” in Archaeology (May/June 2003) :53.

 

Week 13 – Scholarship I

Readings (for Week 15):

Flannery, K.V., “The Golden Marshaltown: A Parable for the Archaeology of the 1980s,” in American Anthropologist, (1982) 84.2: 265-278.

Gardner, Martin, “Alan Sokal’s Hilarious Hoax” in Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000: 144-152.

 

Week 14 – Scholarship II

Readings (for Week 15):

Thomas, Gary, “The Myth of Rational Research” British Educational Research Journal (1998) 24.2: 141-161.

Dennet, Daniel C., “Faith in the Truth,” Amnesty Lecture, Oxford, February 18, 1997, from http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/faithint.htm, accessed January 2nd 2007.

 

Week 15 – Scholarship III

No readings assigned.