Reviews for Material differences

The average rating for Material differences based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-01-30 00:00:00 Matthew Harrington This collection comes mostly from a 1995 conference on “Representing Archaeology in Museums” at the Museum of London and raises interesting questions about the purposes and effectiveness of museum displays. The writers, a mix of academics and museum professionals, focus on a range of topics from prehistory (a colonialist term, not synonymous with archaeology, as Barbara Wood and Jonathan Cotton point out) through Roman Britain and the Anglo-Saxons. Most caution against bias and advocate for display techniques that encourage active visitor engagement, often criticizing ones that do not successfully balance authenticity and speculation. Simon James, for example, cautiously defends reconstructions and multimedia computers as empowering viewers, while Mary Beard and John Henderson bring out flaws in the Museum of London’s Prehistoric and Roman Britain galleries, which do include reconstructions. Surprisingly, the concluding essay by Alan Saville takes a firm traditionalist position, at odds with most of the other essays.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-30 00:00:00 John D Phelps I am not a big fan of American history, I was simply reading it for a class. That being said, for a textbook, this book was a quick and easy read.