Selective remembrances : archaeology in the construction, commemoration, and consecration of national pasts / edited by Philip L. Kohl, Mara Kozelsky, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kohl, Philip L., 1946-

Kozelsky, Mara.

Ben-Yehuda, Nachman.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Political aspects--Case studies.

Archaeology.

Archaeology and state--Case studies.

Archaeology and state.

Nationalism--Case studies.

Nationalism.

Historiography--Political aspects--Case studies.

Historiography.

Memory--Political aspects--Case studies.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (435 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction. Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts

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

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-Iranian Relations

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

12. The Aryan Homeland Debate in India

13. The Impact of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Archaeology of Thailand

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786611957308

9781281957306

1281957305

9780226450643

0226450643

OCLC:

309853888