Rodney Harrison

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  • I convene the Open University’s Interfaculty Heritage Studies Research Group http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/heritage-studies/research-group.shtml and Material Cultures Research Group http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/material-cultures/ 

    • material culture
    • heritage and museums
    • the role of material culture in negotiating cross-cultural encounters
    • archaeology and colonialism
    • archaeologies of the recent and contemporary past
    • collaborative and community-based research practices

    • Forthcoming [2011] Consuming Colonialism: Curio-seller's catalogues, souvenir objects and Indigenous agency in Oceania. In S. Byrne, A. Clarke, R. Harrison and R. Torrence (eds) Unpacking the collection: Museums, identity and agency. Springer. • Forthcoming [2011, with S. Byrne, A. Clarke and R. Torrence] Networks, Agents and Objects: Frameworks for Unpacking Museum Collections. In S. Byrne, A. Clarke, R. Harrison and R. Torrence (eds) Unpacking the collection: Museums, identity and agency. Springer. • Forthcoming [2010] ‘Counter-mapping’ heritage, communities and places in Australia and the UK. In J. Schofield and R. Phillipson (eds) Local Heritage, Global Context: Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place. Ashgate. • 2010 Studying Particular things: Stone Artefacts. In D. Hicks and M Beaudry (eds) Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York; pp. 515-536. • 2010 Heritage as social action. In S. West (ed) Understanding heritage in practice. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 240-276. • 2010 Multicultural and minority heritage. In T. Benton (ed) Understanding heritage and memory. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 164-201. • 2010 The politics of heritage. In R. Harrison (ed) Understanding the politics of heritage. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 154-196. • 2010 What is heritage? In R. Harrison (ed) Understanding the politics of heritage. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 5-42. • 2010 [with D. Bird Rose] Intangible Heritage. In T. Benton (ed) Understanding heritage and memory. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 238-276. • 2010 [with R. Ferguson and D. Weinbren] The heritage of the contemporary past. In T. Benton (ed) Understanding heritage and memory. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 277-315. • 2010 [with L. Hughes] Heritage and post-colonialism. In R. Harrison (ed) Understanding the politics of heritage. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 234-269. • 2010 [with A. Linkman] Critical approaches to heritage. In R. Harrison (ed) Understanding the politics of heritage. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 43-80. • 2010 [with D. O’Donnell] Natural Heritage. In S. West (ed) Understanding heritage in practice. Manchester University Press in association with the Open University, Manchester and Milton Keynes; pp. 88-126. • 2010 ‘Where the cattle went, they went’: towards a phenomenological archaeology of mustering in the Kunderang Gorges, northeastern New South Wales. In Helen Lewis and Sarah Semple (eds) Perspectives in Landscape Archaeology. BAR International Series 2103. Archaeopress, Oxford; pp. 45-54. • 2009 ‘three, two, one...?’: The material legacy of global Millennium celebrations. In J. Schofield (ed.) Defining moments: Dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth century. Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology. Archaeopress, Oxford; pp. 147-156. • 2008 Historical archaeology in the Land of the Black Stump. In A. Mayne (ed) Beyond the Black Stump: Histories of Outback Australia. Wakefield Press, Kent Town (South Australia); pp. 85-112. • 2008 [with G. Fairclough, J. Jameson and J. Schofield] Heritage, memory and modernity: An introduction. In G. Fairclough, R. Harrison, J. Jameson and J. Schofield (eds), The Heritage Reader. Routledge, Abingdon and New York; pp. 1-12. • 2008 The politics of the past: conflict in the use of heritage in the modern world. In G. Fairclough, R. Harrison, J. Jameson and J. Schofield (eds), The Heritage Reader. Routledge, Abingdon and New York; pp. 177-190. • 2007 Materiality, ‘ambiguity’ and the unfamiliar in the Archaeology of Inter-Societal Confrontations: A Case Study from Northwest Australia. In Per Cornell and Fredrik Fahlander (eds) Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations: Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press; pp. 42-57. • 2006 Aboriginal people and pastoralism 1850-1950. In High Lean Country: Environment, Peoples and Tradition in New England. UNSW Press, Sydney; pp. 111-121. • 2005 ‘It will always be set in your heart’: archaeology and community values at the former Dennawan Reserve, northwestern NSW, Australia. In N. Agnew and J. Bridgeland (ed.) Of the Past, For the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation. Papers from the Fifth World Archaeological Congress (WAC 5). Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles; pp. 94-101. • 2005 Dreamtime, old time, this time: Archaeology, memory and the present-past in a northern Australian Aboriginal community. In Tracy Ireland and Jane Lydon (eds) Object Lessons: Archaeology and heritage in Australia. Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne; 243-264. • 2004 Contact archaeology and the landscapes of pastoralism in the North of Australia. In T. Murray (ed.), The archaeology of culture contact in settler societies. New Directions in Archaeology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 109-143. • 2002 Shared histories and the archaeology of the pastoral industry in Australia. In Harrison, R. and Williamson, C. (eds) After Captain Cook: The archaeology of the recent indigenous past in Australia. Sydney University Archaeological Methods Series 8. Sydney: Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney; pp. 37-58. • 2002 [with C. Williamson] Too many Captain Cooks? An archaeology of Aboriginal Australia after 1788. In Harrison, R. and Williamson, C. (eds) After Captain Cook: The archaeology of the recent indigenous past in Australia. Sydney University Archaeological Methods Series 8. Sydney: Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney; pp. 1-14. • 2000 Challenging the authenticity of antiquity: contact archaeology and Native Title in Australia. Native Title and the Transformation of Archaeology in a Postcolonial World (ed I. Lilley). Sydney: Oceania Publications; pp.35-53. Refereed Journal Articles • Forthcoming [2010] Exorcising the ‘plague of fantasies’: Mass media and archaeology’s role in the present; Or, why we need an archaeology of ‘now’. World Archaeology 42(3): 328–340. • 2009 [with John Schofield] Archaeo-ethnography, auto-archaeology: introducing archaeologies of the contemporary past. Archaeologies 5(2): 185-209. • 2009 Towards an archaeology of the welfare state in Britain. Archaeologies 5(2): 238-262. • 2009 Excavating Second Life: cyber-archaeologies, heritage and virtual settlements. Journal of Material Culture 14(1): 75-106. • 2009 The archaeology of the Port Hedland coastal plain, Western Australia, and implications for understanding the prehistory of shell mounds and middens in north western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 44 supplement: 81-98 • 2009 [with G. Clune] Coastal shell middens of the Abydos coastal plain, Western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 44 supplement: 70-80 • 2008 [with M. Gibbs, S. Burke, K. Przywolnik and A. Sellers] Engagements in the field: Teaching field archaeology in the context of a community-driven research project. Archaeological Heritage 1(1): 29-36. • 2008 [with M. Gibbs] Dynamics of Dispersion revisited? Archaeological context and the study of Aboriginal knapped glass artefacts in Australia. Australian Archaeology 67: 61-68. • 2007 On Kimberley Points and the Politics of Enchantment. Reply to Akerman. Current Anthropology 48(1): 133-134. • 2006 An artefact of colonial desire? Kimberley points and the technologies of enchantment. Current Anthropology 47(1): 63-88. • 2005 Contact archaeology and Native Title in Australia. Australian Aboriginal Studies 2005(1): 16-29. • 2004 Kimberley points and colonial preference: new insights into the chronology of pressure flaked point forms from the southeast Kimberley, Western Australia. Archaeology in Oceania 39(1): 1-11. • 2004 [with S. McIntyre-Tamwoy] Monuments to colonialism? Stone arrangements, tourists cairns and turtle magic at Evans Bay, Cape York. Australian Archaeology 59: 31-42. • 2003 The archaeology of ‘lost places’: ruin, memory and the heritage of the Aboriginal diaspora in Australia. Historic Environment 17(1): 18-23. • 2003 ‘The magical virtue of these sharp things’: mimesis, colonialism and knapped bottle glass artefacts in Australia. Journal of Material Culture 8(3): 311-336. • 2002 Archaeology and the colonial encounter: Kimberley spear points, cultural identity and masculinity in the north of Australia. Journal of Social Archaeology 2(3): 352-377. • 2002 Australia’s Iron Age: Aboriginal post-contact metal artefacts from Old Lamboo station, southeast Kimberley, WA. Australasian Historical Archaeology 20: 67-76. • 2002 [with S. Greer and S. McIntyre-Tamwoy] Community-based archaeology in Australia. World Archaeology 34(2): 265-287.

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