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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796915303321

Autore

Hare J. Laurence

Titolo

Excavating Nations : Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands / / J. Laurence Hare

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-1696-2

1-4426-1695-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

German and European Studies ; ; 18

Disciplina

943/.01

Soggetti

Archaeology - Political aspects - Denmark - History

Archaeology - Political aspects - Germany - History

Archaeology and state - Germany - History

Archaeology and state - Denmark - History

Borderlands - History - Germany

Borderlands - Denmark - History

National characteristics, German - History

National characteristics, Danish - History

Denmark

Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Antiquarians and patriots -- National prehistories in the German-Danish wars -- Discovery and rediscovery at Haithabu -- Nationalism, science, and the search for origins -- Prehistory and the popular imagination -- Creating Nazi archaeology -- The fate of archaeology in the borderlands -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

"Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of Schleswig-Holstein and Sonderjylland were critical both to the emergence of professional prehistoric archaeology



and to conceptions of German and Scandinavian origins. At the center of this process, Hare argues, was a cohort of amateur antiquarians and archaeologists who collaborated across the border to investigate the ancient past but were also complicit in its appropriation for nationalist ends. Excavating Nations follows the development of this cross-border network over four generations, through the unification of Germany and two world wars. Using correspondence and site reports from museum, university, and state archives across Germany and Denmark, Hare shows how these scholars negotiated their simultaneous involvement in nation-building projects and in a transnational academic community."--