Manchester TAG 2014 – Cataloguing Magic: Papers abstracts

Theoretical Archaeology Group ‘Cataloguing Magic’ session @ Mcr Uni

Cataloguing Magic

Running Order

1.       Is there such a thing as ‘magic’? – Elizabeth Graham (UCL)

2.       ‘Objects of Power: Magic or Sacred or What?’ – Crispin Paine (UCL)

3.       Revealing the Ritually Concealed: Tracing the concealed shoe from its moment of discovery. – Ceri Houlbrook (University of Manchester)

4.       Economies of magic: reassessing interpretations of cowries in the African Iron Age – Holly Atkinson (University of Manchester)

5.       Behind Glass: Magical and Religious Objects Out of Context – Natalie Armitage (University of Manchester)

Questions for papers 1-5

Tea break

6.       Collecting Magic – Tabitha Cadbury (University of Bristol)

7.       The Materiality of Finnish Folk Magic – Objects in the Collections of the National Museum in Helsinki – Sonja Hukantaival (University of Turku)

8.       Redefining ‘Magical Medicines’: Public Engagement and Curation of African Medico-religious Objects at Manchester Museum – Bryn Trevelyan James (King’s College, London)

9.       Magic in Museums:…

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