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Archaeology under fire : nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East / edited by Lynn Meskell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archaeology--Political aspects--Middle East.
- Archaeology.
- Archaeology and state--Middle East.
- Archaeology and state.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 251 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-64389-6
- 0-203-25932-7
- 1-134-64390-X
- 0-203-02981-X
- 1-280-33701-X
- 9780203029817
- OCLC:
- 568194110
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