Archaeology under fire : nationalism, politics and heritage in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East

Archaeology under fire : nationalism, politics and heritage in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East / edited by Lynn Meskell.

Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology's role in current political issues, including the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, and the continued destruction of Beirut.

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Other Authors: Meskell, Lynn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Subjects:
Archaeology > Political aspects > Middle East.
Archaeology > Political aspects > Mediterranean Region.
Nationalism > Middle East.
Nationalism > Mediterranean Region.
Archaeology > Political aspects > Mediterranean Sea.
HISTORY > General.
Antiquities
Archaeology > Political aspects
Nationalism
Archäologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Politik
Nationalismus
Forschung
Geschichte
Archeologie.
Politieke aspecten.
Archéologie > Aspect politique > Proche-Orient.
Archéologie > Politique publique > Proche-Orient.
Nationalisme > Moyen-Orient.
Nationalisme > Méditerranée (région ; est)
Middle East > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Region > Antiquities.
Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Region
Middle East
Levante
Naher Osten
Proche-Orient > Antiquités.
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Table of Contents:
  • Archaeology, politics and the cultural heritage of Cyprus / A. Bernard Knapp and Sophia Antoniadou
  • Past is ours: images of Greek Macedonia / Kostas Kotsakis
  • Contests of heritage and the politics of preservation in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia / K.S. Brown
  • Bulgarian archaeology: ideology, sociopolitics and the exotic / Douglass W. Bailey
  • Ideology and archaeology in Turkey / Mehmet Ozdoğan
  • Past as passion and play: Çatalhöyük as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts / Ian Hodder
  • Beirut's memorycide: hear no evil, see no evil / Albert Farid Henry Naccache
  • Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past / Zainab Bahrani
  • Whose game is it anyway? The political and social transformations of American Biblical Archaeology / Neil Asher Silberman
  • Gulf Arab states and their archaeology / D.T. Potts
  • Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt / Fekri A. Hassan
  • Ancient Egypt in America: claiming the riches / Ann Macy Roth.

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