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22 janvier 2019
- doi: 10.4000/books.ausonius.5870
- isbn: 9782356131317
- eisbn: 9782356133151
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archéologie historiographie science de l'Antiquité transfert culturel Lumières patrimoine orientalisme histoire de l'enseignement History HIS000000 HBSujets proches
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Suzanne Marchand, « The Dialectics of the Antiquities Rush », Ausonius Éditions, ID : 10.4000/books.ausonius.5870
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In the period between about 1800 and 1930, Europeans engaged in what is called in this essay an “antiquities rush”. Napoleon’s extractions of antiquities from Rome generated reaction from the Romans, however, who began to think of their antiquities as national, rather than personal property, and imposed a series of new export bans on artefacts. From this time forward, European nations competed to fill their museums with authentic classical and Egyptian artefacts, generating in turn a series of new antiquities export bans that travelled eastward, in the wake of the “rush”. The essay concludes with a brief account of a final, rapacious “antiquities rush” in Chinese Turkestan, and its gradual closing down by the 1930s. The aim of the piece is to show how the “antiquities rush” involved both Europeans and local officials, and concluded by making archaeology a more sessile discipline, in which excavators are no longer driven by the dialectics of the rush.