dc.contributor.author | Gill, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Mckenzie, CJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Lightfoot, E | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-16T13:44:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-11-23 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the relationship between literary and bioarchaeological approaches to slavery, and investigates how the methods and priorities of each discipline might inform each other in understanding what it was like to be enslaved. Both bioarchaeologists and creative writers have attempted to access the inner lives of enslaved people, yet there has been little interaction between these disciplines. This paper offers an account of an interdisciplinary research project which brought together a literary scholar, two archaeological scientists and seven creative writers to explore how writing might not only communicate a history primarily understood through archaeological evidence, but could itself inform approaches to that evidence. We discuss two key themes which emerged from the project as ways of opening up, rather than claiming, the past: Conversation and Caring. These are themes which were also crucial to the success of the interdisciplinary process, as it was only through attention to our relationships with each other that we were ultimately able to begin to reassess the nature of material in each of our disciplines. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Science in Culture theme under Grant AH/N007107/1. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 23 November 2018 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03080188.2018.1543913 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/32879 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | |
dc.subject | Interdisciplinary | en_GB |
dc.subject | slavery | en_GB |
dc.subject | creative writing | en_GB |
dc.subject | archaeological science | en_GB |
dc.subject | Bristol | en_GB |
dc.title | ‘Handle with Care’: Literature, Archaeology, Slavery | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0308-0188 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews | en_GB |
refterms.dateFOA | 2018-12-12T12:39:09Z | |