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From their beginnings, archaeology museums have reflected a complex and dynamic balance between the demands of developing, documenting, and preserving objects on the one hand and sharing knowledge, access, and control on the other. This balance has informed and inflected the ways that museums present the past, including both practical aspects of pedagogy and exhibition design as well as more critical and contested issues of authority, authenticity, and reflexivity in interpretation. Meeting the complex requirements of curation, deliberate collections growth, management, and conservation, as well as the need to respond to continuing challenges to the museum's right and title to hold various forms of cultural property, archaeological museums play an active role in both preserving and shaping the public's view of the past and reflect the prospects and perils of being at once a temple to the muses and a forum for sometimes contentious public discourse.

The Underwater Dig: An Introduction to Marine Archeology. Robert Marx.Deep Water, Ancient Ships: The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean. Willard Bascom.

This article proposes a mode of analysis drawing from historical institutionalism and American political development but that is generated more organically from within the study of law. This approach, legal archaeology, focuses on the production of legal discourse while attending to the institutional boundaries and conditions around this production. Legal archaeology is particularly useful for understanding the role of law in constructing subordinated identities. Illuminating legal struggles over the boundaries of subordinated identities facilitates consideration of how subordination is institutionalized, though archaeology maintains legal institutions at the center of the analysis. The article concludes with examples of the analysis. Adapted from the source document.