Controlling the past, owning the future
Subtitle: the political uses of archaeology in the Middle East
By: edited by Ran Boytner, Lynn Swartz Dodd, and Bradley J. Parker
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780816527953
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Filtering the past : archaeology, politics, and change / Lynn Swartz Dodd and Ran Boytner; title: Heritage politics : learning from Mullah Omar? / Reinhard Bernbeck; title: Archaeology and nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003 / Magnus T. Bernhardsson; title: Political excavations of the Anatolian past : nationalism and archaeology in Turkey / Asli Gür; title: By the rivers of change : strategists on the heritage front / Sandra Scham; title: Undermining the edifice of ethnocentric historical narrative in Israel with community-based archaeology / David Ilan and Yuval Gadot; title: Who owns the past? : the role of nationalism, politics, and profit in presenting Israel's archaeological sites to the public / Ann E. Killebrew; title: Heritage appropriation in the Holy Land / Adel H. Yahya; title: Exploring heritage discourses in central Jordan / Danielle Steen ... [et al.]; title: From practical knowledge to empowered communication : field schools of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt / Willeke Wendrich; title: Decolonizing archaeology : political economy and archaeological practice in the Middle East / Susan Pollock; title: We are all Middle Easterners now : globalization, immanence, archaeology / Yannis Hamilakis; title: Potential abuses and uses of the remote past in the Middle East (and elsewhere) / Philip L. Kohl.