Museology and Egyptian Material Culture, Museo Egizio - Turin, Italy - Institute for Field Research


Location: Turin , Italy

Season: 
June 16, 2019 to September 1, 2019

Session dates: 
Session I: June 16-July 21, 2019 Session II: July 28-September 1, 2019

Application Deadline: 
Friday, April 5, 2019

Deadline Type: 
Rolling

Website: 
http://ifrglobal.org/program/italy-turin-museum/

Flyer: PDF icon syllabus-italy-turin-2019.pdf

Program Type

Field school

RPA certified

no

Affiliation:

Institute for Field Research, Connecticut College, UCLA

Project Director:

Dr. Hans Barnard

Project Description

The collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts in the Museo Egizio in Turin (Italy) is among the most important in the world. It includes the Old Kingdom Tomb of the Unknown, the New Kingdom Tomb of Kha and Merit, the Nubian Temple of Ellesiya, and the Turin Papyrus Map. This field school aims to contribute to the analysis and publication of selected ceramic artifacts and ancient textiles, with a special focus on production techniques and communities of practice. Students will have opportunities to be actively involved in all aspects of the preservation, study and presentation of museum objects.

Period(s) of Occupation: Late Kingdom Egypt

Project size: 
1-24 participants

Minimum Length of Stay for Volunteers: Participants must stay entire duration of the field school.

Minimum age: 
18

Experience required: 
No prior experience is required to participate in this field school.

Room and Board Arrangements

Turin (Torino), on the river Po, is the capital of the Piedmont (Piemonte) region in northwest Italy. Students and staff will stay in Camplus Lingotto, located in the former FIAT car factory in southern Turin, in a lively part of town that is well-connected with the historic center by public transport. The original building was designed by architect Matté Trucco and opened in 1923 as the largest car factory in the world at the time. The design was unusual with raw materials entering on the ground floor and cars being built in an assembly line that went up through the building. Finished cars emerged at an open-air test track on top of the fifth floor. The factory closed in 1982, leading to a public debate about the future of the building. Eventually the building was reimagined by the famous architect Renzo Piano, and now houses the Faculty of Automotive Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Turin, as well as an art gallery, a concert hall, a theatre, a convention center, shopping arcades, and student housing facilities, the latter run by Camplus College, which provides breakfast to its guests.

MEALS
On weekdays, students and staff will have lunch together in one of the many restaurants near the museum. On Wednesdays students and staff will also have dinner together. These communal lunches and dinners are considered part of the field school and the presence of all students is compulsory. Students with special dietary needs should discuss these with the project directors before traveling to Italy. In the weekends everyone is free to explore the many lunch and dining options available in Turin, alone or in small groups. Turin is one of the centers of Italian cuisine and food is fresh and well prepared.

Cost: 
Room and partial board Is covered by the program tuition.

Academic Credit

Name of institution offering credit: 
Connecticut College
Number of credits offered 8 Semester Credits
Tuition: 
$5,120

Location

Contact Information
Institute for Field Research
2999 Overland Ave. Suite 103
Los Angeles
CA
USA
90064
info@ifrglobal.org
Telephone: 
424-209-1173
Recommended Bibliography: 

REQUIRED READINGS

Digital copies of the required readings below will be made available to all enrolled students.

Egyptology and museology

 - B. Leach and R.B. Parkinson (2010), “Creating borders: New insights into making the Papyrus of Ani,” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 15, pp. 35-62.

 - Selected chapters from M.K. Hartwig (ed.) (2014), A companion to ancient Egyptian art, Wiley-Blackwell (Hoboken).

 - Chapters 1 and 9 in I. Hodder (2012), Entangled: An archaeology of the relationships between humans and things, John Wiley and Sons (Chichester and Malden).

 - Chapters 7 and 9 in L. Malafouris (2013), How things shape the mind: A theory of material engagement, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (Cambridge, MA).

Ceramic analysis

 - H. Barnard (2008), “Suggestions for a chaîne opératoire of nomadic pottery sherds,” in H. Barnard and W.Z. Wendrich (eds.), The archaeology of mobility: Old World and New World nomadism, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (Los Angeles), pp. 413-439.

 - H. Barnard (2012), “Results of recent mass spectrometric research of Eastern Desert Ware (4th-6th centuries CE),” in H. Barnard and K. Duistermaat, The history of the peoples of the Eastern Desert, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology (Los Angeles), pp. 270-281.

 - Selected chapters from C. Orton, P. Tyers and A. Vince (2008), Pottery in archaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology), Cambridge University Press (Cambridge and New York).

 - Chapter 3 in C.M. Sinopoli (1991), Approaches to Archaeological Ceramics, Plenum Press (New York and London).

Textile studies

 - Selected chapters from B. Gordon (2011), Textiles: The whole story, Thames and Hudson (London and New York).

 - Selected chapters from K. Grömer (2016), The art of prehistoric textile making: The development of craft traditions and clothing in Central Europe (Veröffentlichungen der Prähistorischen Abteilung 5), Natural History Museum (Vienna).

 - Chapter 4 in B.J. Kemp and G. Vogelsang-Eastwood (2001), The ancient textile industry at Amarna, Egypt Exploration Society (London).

 - Chapters 1 and 2 in M. Schoeser (2003), World textiles: A concise history, Thames and Hudson (London and New York).

 - G. Vogelsang-Eastwood (2000), “Textiles,” in P.T. Nicholson and I. Shaw (eds.), Ancient Egyptian materials and technology, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), pp. 268-298.

RECOMMENDED READINGS

 - J. Baines and J. Malek (2000), Cultural atlas of ancient Egypt (revised edition), Checkmark Books (New York).

 - I. Emery (2009), The primary structures of fabrics: An illustrated classification (reprint of the 1966 original), Thames and Hudson (London and New York).

 - T. Ingold (2007), Lines: A brief history, Routledge (Milton Park, Abingdon).

 - B.J. Kemp (2006), Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a civilization (second edition), Routledge (Abington and New York).

 - P.M. Rice (2015), Pottery analysis: A sourcebook (second edition), University of Chicago Press (Chicago).

 - I. Shaw (ed.) 2003, The Oxford history of ancient Egypt (second edition), Oxford University Press (Oxford and New York).

 - J.M. Skibo and G.M. Feinman (1999), Pottery and people: A dynamic interaction, University of Utah Press (Salt Lake City).

 - E. Strouhal (1992), Life of the ancient Egyptians, Liverpool University Press and University of Oklahoma Press (Liverpool and Norman).

- W.Z. Wendrich (ed.) (2012), Archaeology and apprenticeship: Body knowledge, identity, and communities of practice, University of Arizona Press (Tucson).