Cosmopolitan archaeologies
By: Lynn Meskell, editor.
Contributors: Meskell, Lynn.
Series: Material worlds; Material worlds (Duke University Press)
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780822344322; 9780822344445
Subjects: Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects; Archaeology -- Political aspects; Cultural property -- Moral and ethical aspects; Archaeologists -- Professional ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cosmopolitan heritage ethics / Lynn Meskell; title: Young and free: the Australian past in a global future / Jane lydon; title: Strangers and brothers? heritage, human rights, and cosmopolitan archaeology in Oceania / Ian lilley; title: Archaeology and the fortress of rationality / Denis byrne; title: The nature of culture in Kruger National Park / Lynn Meskell; title: Vernacular cosmopolitanism : an archaeological critique of universalistic reason / Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal; title: The archaeologist as a world citizen : on the morals of heritage preservation and destruction / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh; title: "Time's wheel runs back" : conversations with the Middle Eastern past / Sandra Arnold Scham; title: Mavili's voice / Ian Hodder; title: "Walking around like they own the place" : quotidian cosmopolitanism at a Maya and World Heritage archaeological site / Lisa Breglia; title: Translating Ecuadorian modernities : pre-Hispanic archaeology and the reproduction of global difference / O. Hugo Penavides.