Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the “Big Tent”

Archaeology, the Digital Humanities, and the “Big Tent”. Watrall, E. In Gold, M. K. & Klein, L. F., editors, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016, pages 345–358. University of Minnesota Press, 2016.

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There has been much discussion about “the big tent” as the metaphor that defines and delineates the boundaries of the digital humanities. In some cases, such as at the University College London Centre for Digital Humanities (Warwick et al.), the “big tent” is framed quite broadly, defined not by traditional disciplinary boundaries but by practice. Kathleen Fitzpatrick,¹ on the other hand, defines the “big tent” as “a nexus of fields within which scholars use computing technologies to investigate the kinds of questions that are traditional to the humanities, or, as is more true of [her] own work, who ask traditional

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