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.indd 158 03/12/2019 08:56 When the modern was too new159 Returning home, Hanna used her experiences in French Palaeolithic scholarship to write a book about the archaeology of the Upper Palaeolithic, attributed to the genre of popular science. However, it was also read in professional circles, and for many decades it was the only book in Swedish about Palaeolithic cave art written by a professional scholar (Rydh, 1926a). The East Asian connections In the years following Schnittger’s death, Hanna Rydh spent much of her time finishing some of his archaeological
the past, but also, once recognized, to puzzle out their internal logic. Unbundling conservatism Until now, I have elided much of the difference between phases of resistance to innovations; specific examples of failures to innovate or adopt innovations; and more widespread disinclination to innovate among a social group, political class, etc. At this point, I believe it is worth unbundling these, as they do not necessarily all equate. An individual act of resistance, or resistance to a specific genre of technology or practice, does not mean that a person or
assisted visitors’ understandings of the layout and content of the Museum. Principal among these methods was the printed guide. The museum or art gallery guidebook had emerged as a genre in the nineteenth century, at first compiled by independent writers, and later by museums and galleries themselves.36 The published outcomes of the cataloguing processes detailed in chapter 5 served not only to order and record the collections for staff and researchers, but also to make sense of them for those who visited the galleries. Together with the architecture, guidebooks served