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Selective Remembrances
Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
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Selective Remembrances
Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
About this book
When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal, they turn to archaeology, employing the field and its findings to develop nationalistic feelings and forge legitimate distinctive national identities.
Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, Selective Remembrances shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. Religion has long played a key role in such efforts, and the contributors take care to demonstrate the tendency of many people, including archaeologists themselves, to view the world through a religious lens—which can be exploited by new regimes to suppress objective study of the past and justify contemporary political actions.
The wide geographic and intellectual range of the essays in Selective Remembrances will make it a seminal text for archaeologists and historians.
Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, Selective Remembrances shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. Religion has long played a key role in such efforts, and the contributors take care to demonstrate the tendency of many people, including archaeologists themselves, to view the world through a religious lens—which can be exploited by new regimes to suppress objective study of the past and justify contemporary political actions.
The wide geographic and intellectual range of the essays in Selective Remembrances will make it a seminal text for archaeologists and historians.
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Yes, you can access Selective Remembrances by Philip L. Kohl, Mara Kozelsky, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, Philip L. Kohl,Mara Kozelsky,Nachman Ben-Yehuda in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & World History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2008Print ISBN
9780226450599, 9780226450582eBook ISBN
9780226450643Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction: Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
- Part One: Russia and Eastern Europe
- 1 Russian Response: Archaeology, Russian Nationalism, and the “Arctic Homeland”
- 2 The Challenges of Church Archaeology in Post-Soviet Crimea
- 3 The Writing of Caucasian Albania: Facts and Falsifications
- 4 Archaeology and Nationalism in The History of the Romanians
- Part Two: The Near East
- 5 The Rise of the Hittite Sun: A Deconstruction of Western Civilization from the Margin
- 6 The Sense of Belonging: The Politics of Archaeology in Modern Iraq
- 7 The Name Game: The Persian Gulf, Archaeologists, and the Politics of Arab-IranianRelations
- Part Three: Israel/Palestine
- 8 Excavating Masada: The Politics-Archaeology Connection at Work
- 9 Recovering Authenticity: West-Bank Settlers and the Second Stage of National Archaeology
- 10 Appropriating the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel
- 11 An Archaeology of Palestine: Mourning a Dream
- Part Four: South and Southeast Asia
- 12 The Aryan Homeland Debate in India
- 13 The Impact of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Archaeology of Thailand
- Contributors
- Index