Greetings, Iain,

I gather that luminaries in IA such as Marilyn Palmer are inclined to the
view that Industrial Archaeology should continue to define itself separately
from historical archaeology, and surely not as heritage studies.  Clealry
understanding industry, work, and industrial processes requires different
sorts of expertise than being in the heritage industry!

In Jim & Eleanor's edited volume, I stake out the position that casting IA
as "heritage studies" is not a good thing; that it presents a slippery slope
of defining our job as having to do with ushering industries into the clean
and romanticized world of 'heritage' because  it is based on the premise
that industry is already a thing of the past, a part of constructed heritage
and not part of the real world of today.  My conversion came from hearing a
paper Larry Gross gave at the "Whither IA?" conference in Lowell some years
back (which he subsequently published in the American journal, IA).

MCB

On 9/27/06, J Symonds <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Iain,
>
> Eleanor Conlin Casella and I have recently explored this issue in our
> edited
> Springer volume Industrial Archaeology:New Directions. The volume argues
> for a
> social archaeology of industrialization. A common theme in this volume is
> that
> that the physical recording of machines and industrial processes is not
> enough.
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> james
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> Quoting Iain Stuart <[log in to unmask]>:
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> > Industrial Archaeology vs. Industrial Heritage
> >
> > Anyone noticed how we are loosing industrial archaeology to the grab bag
> > term "heritage"? Any idea why?
> >
> > I seem to recall that when it was discovered that industrial
> archaeologists
> > were found to be doing history, archaeology, engineering etc it was
> deemed
> > that it must be "heritage " rather than "archaeology" But don't
> historical
> > archaeologist do much the same thing??
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> > Is it important that we keep the term industrial archaeology?
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