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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783730303321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-64389-6

0-203-25932-7

1-134-64390-X

0-203-02981-X

1-280-33701-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps

Altri autori (Persone)

MeskellLynn

Disciplina

939

956/.01

Soggetti

Archaeology - Political aspects - Middle East

Archaeology and state - Middle East

Middle East Antiquities

Mediterranean Region Antiquities

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction: Archaeology matters Lynn Meskell; Archaeology, politics and the cultural heritage of Cyprus A.Bernard Knapp and Sophia Antoniadou; The 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 zdoan

The past as passion and play: atalhOyk 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; The 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; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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