Abstract
Imperialist, or world-oriented archaeologies, take shape at the centre of empires, or large-scale economic systems, and assume an outward looking, global orientation. The Folk-Lore Society operated literally in a metropolis, founded and established at Thoms’ insistence in London, and this enabled not only Australia and Africa to be imagined as peripheral, but also the rural poor of England. Trigger’s characterisations of “nationalist, imperialist and colonialist” as ideal types in relation to the questions that archaeologists have asked are clearly not irrelevant to the related history of folklore. An ‘imperialist’ or world-oriented approach was strongly promoted by one party in debates surrounding the establishment of The Folk-lore Society, and this was explicitly related in the accounts of Lang and Long to the contemporary practice of archaeology. Keywords:folk-lore society; imperialist; London; world-oriented archaeologies
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