Controlling the past, owning the future : the political uses of archaeology in the Middle East /

Saved in:

Other Authors: Boytner, Ran, 1962-, Dodd, Lynn Swartz, 1964-, Parker, Bradley J., 1962-

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.

Subjects:

Tags: Add Tag

No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Call Number: DS56 .C625 2010

Table of Contents:
  • Filtering the past : archaeology, politics, and change / Lynn Swartz Dodd and Ran Boytner
  • Heritage politics : learning from Mullah Omar? / Reinhard Bernbeck
  • Archaeology and nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003 / Magnus T. Bernhardsson
  • Political excavations of the Anatolian past : nationalism and archaeology in Turkey / Asli Gür
  • By the rivers of change : strategists on the heritage front / Sandra Scham
  • Undermining the edifice of ethnocentric historical narrative in Israel with community-based archaeology / David Ilan and Yuval Gadot
  • Who owns the past? : the role of nationalism, politics, and profit in presenting Israel's archaeological sites to the public / Ann E. Killebrew
  • Heritage appropriation in the Holy Land / Adel H. Yahya
  • Exploring heritage discourses in central Jordan / Danielle Steen ... [et al.]
  • From practical knowledge to empowered communication : field schools of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt / Willeke Wendrich
  • Decolonizing archaeology : political economy and archaeological practice in the Middle East / Susan Pollock
  • We are all Middle Easterners now : globalization, immanence, archaeology / Yannis Hamilakis
  • Potential abuses and uses of the remote past in the Middle East (and elsewhere) / Philip L. Kohl.