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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166655003321

Titolo

Cosmopolitan archaeologies / / Lynn Meskell, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2009

ISBN

9786613065476

1283065479

0822392429

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations, charts, figures, tables

Collana

Material worlds

Altri autori (Persone)

MeskellLynn

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Archaeology - Moral and ethical aspects

Archaeology - Political aspects

Cultural property - Moral and ethical aspects

Archaeologists - Professional ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-283) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: cosmopolitan heritage ethics / Lynn Meskell -- Young and free: the Australian past in a global future / Jane lydon -- Strangers and brothers? heritage, human rights, and cosmopolitan archaeology in Oceania / Ian lilley -- Archaeology and the fortress of rationality / Denis byrne -- The nature of culture in Kruger National Park / Lynn Meskell -- Vernacular cosmopolitanism : an archaeological critique of universalistic reason / Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal -- The archaeologist as a world citizen : on the morals of heritage preservation and destruction / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh -- "Time's wheel runs back" : conversations with the Middle Eastern past / Sandra Arnold Scham -- Mavili's voice / Ian Hodder -- "Walking around like they own the place" : quotidian cosmopolitanism at a Maya and World Heritage archaeological site / Lisa Breglia -- Translating Ecuadorian modernities : pre-Hispanic archaeology and the reproduction of global difference / O. Hugo Penavides. -- .

Sommario/riassunto

A collection exploring the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice.