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Controlling the Past, Owning the Future: The Political Uses of Archaeology in the Middle East
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Boytner, Ran; Dodd, Lynn Swartz; Parker, Bradley J. Num Pages: 320 pages, 17 b/w photographs, 1 table, 2 maps. BIC Classification: HDDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
What are the political uses—and misuses—of archaeology in the Middle East? In answering this question, the contributors to this volume lend their regional expertise to a variety of case studies, including the Taliban’s destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan, the commercialization of archaeology in Israel, the training of Egyptian archaeology inspectors, and the debate over Turkish identity sparked by the film Troy, among other provocative subjects. Other chapters question the ethical justifications of archaeology in places that have “alternative engagements with the material past.” In the process, they form various views of the role of the archaeologist, from steward of the ... Read more
What are the political uses—and misuses—of archaeology in the Middle East? In answering this question, the contributors to this volume lend their regional expertise to a variety of case studies, including the Taliban’s destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan, the commercialization of archaeology in Israel, the training of Egyptian archaeology inspectors, and the debate over Turkish identity sparked by the film Troy, among other provocative subjects. Other chapters question the ethical justifications of archaeology in places that have “alternative engagements with the material past.” In the process, they form various views of the role of the archaeologist, from steward of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816527953
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V9780816527953
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About
Lynn Swartz Dodd currently serves as a lecturer and curator for the Archaeological Research Collection at the University of Southern California. Bradley J. Parker is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah and author of The Mechanics of Empire. Ran Boytner is the director for International Research at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, ... Read more
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