Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment within the Humanities and Social Sciences

Performative strategies are taking part in an more and more distinguished position in analysis into historic manufacturing processes, supplies, bodily data and sensory expertise, and in types of schooling and public engagement in school rooms and museums. This e-book provides, for the primary time, sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative strategies, variously often known as Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment (RRR) practices throughout the fields of historical past of science, archaeology, artwork historical past, conservation, musicology and anthropology. Every of those fields has distinct histories, approaches, instruments and analysis questions. Researchers within the historic disciplines have used reconstructions to be taught concerning the supplies and practices of the previous, whereas anthropologists and ethnographers have extra typically studied the re-enactments themselves, taking part in these performances as engaged observers. On this e-book, authors carry their experiences of RRR practices inside their self-discipline into dialog with RRR practices in different disciplines, offering a foundation for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization.