New perspectives in global public archaeology
By: Katsuyuki Okamura, Akira Matsuda, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781461403401
Subjects: Public history; Salvage archaeology; Social aspects; Community archaeology; Archaeology; Archaeology and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Is a shared past possible? : the ethics and practice of archaeology in the twenty-first century / Ian Hodder; title: Engaged archaeology : whose community? which public? / K. Anne Pyburn; title: "Public archaeology" in China : a preliminary investigation / Tao Wang; title: Public archaeology in Canada / Joanne Lea and Karolyn Smardz Frost; title: From object-centered to people-focused : exploring a gap between archaeologists and the public in contemporary Japan / Katsuyuki Okamura; title: Public archaeology in Korea : a duet of popularity and nationalism / Oh Young Kwon and Moo Joong Kim; title: Public archaeology in Thailand / Rasmi Shoocongdej; title: Archaeology in a multicultural and multiethnic nation under construction : the case of New Caledonia (southern Melanesia) / Christophe Sand, Jacques Bolé, and André Ouetcho; title: Digging on contested grounds : archaeology and the commemoration of slavery on Gorée Island, Senegal / Ibrahima Thiaw; title: The heritage uncertainty principle : excavating air raid shelters from the Second World War / Heather Burke ... [et al.]; title: Archaeology dreaming : postapartheid urban imaginaries and the remains of the Prestwich Street dead / Nick Shepherd; title: Archaeology by the (Far) East in the West : what do local people think if Japanese archaeologists excavate the "Villa of Augustus" in Italy? / Akira Matsuda; title: Meaning-making process of cultural heritage in Jordan : the local communities, the contexts, and the archaeological sites in the Citadel of Amman / Shatha Abu-Khafajah; title: The excluded past in Jordanian formal primary education : the introduction of archaeology / Arwa Badran; title: The educational purpose of archaeology : a personal view from the United Kingdom / Donald Henson; title: The role of archaeology and its challenges in Japanese school education : the curriculum and history textbooks / Shuseki Murata; title: Multivocality in multimedia : collaborative archaeology and the potential of cyberspace / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, T.J. Ferguson, and Douglas W. Gann; title: Looking for an identity : archaeologists, local communities, and public archaeology in Peru / Daniel Dante Saucedo-Segami; title: Sharing the pleasure of excavation : the public archaeology program at the Miharashidai Site, Japan / Makoto Muraki.