Unmasking ideology in imperial and colonial archaeology : vocabulary, symbols, and legacy / edited by Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Effros, Bonnie, 1965- editor, author.

Lai, Guolong, 1967 November 30- editor, author.

Series:

Ideas, debates, and perspectives ; v. 8.

Ideas, debates, and perspectives ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Political aspects.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Social aspects.

Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Political aspects.

Antiquities.

Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Social aspects.

Imperialism--Social aspects.

Imperialism.

Antiquities--Collection and preservation.

Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 467 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles, [2018]

Summary:

This volume addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Popular sentiment in the West has tended to embrace the adventure rather than ponder the legacy of archaeological explorers. Allegations by imperial powers of "discovering" archaeological sites or "saving" world heritage from neglect or destruction have often provided the pretext for expanding political might. Consequently, Indigenous populations often fell victim to imperialism, while seeing their lands confiscated, artifacts looted, and the ancient remains in their midst commodified. Spanning the globe with case studies from East Asia, Siberia, Australia, North and South America, Europe, and Africa, sixteen contributions written by archaeologists, art historians, and historians from four continents offer unusual breadth and depth in the assessment of various facets of claims to patrimonial heritage in the context of imperial and colonial ventures of the last two centuries, and their post-colonial legacy.

Contents:

Introduction: the global reach of imperial and colonial archaeology / Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai

Part I. Defining approaches to imperial and colonial archaeology

Archaeology and imperialism: from nineteenth-century new imperialism to twentieth-century decolonization / Margarita Diaz-Andreu

German archaeology in occupied Europe during World War II: a case of colonial archaeology? / Hubert Fehr

Part II. Colonialism and nationalism

Problematizing the encylopedic museum: the Benin bronzes and ivories in historical context / Neil Brodie

Digging up China: imperialism, nationalism, and regionalism in the Yinxu excavation, 1928-1937 / Guolong Lai

They have not changed in 2,500 years: art, archaeology and modernity in Iran / Talinn Grigor

Part III. Indigenous voices

Colonialist archaeology in the American Southwest / Chip Colwell

The history of archaeology through the eyes of Egyptians / Wendy Doyon

Indigenous voices at the margins: nuancing the history of French colonial archaeology in Algeria, 1830-1870 / Bonnie Effros

Critiquing the discovery narrative of Lady Mungo / Ann McGrath

Part IV. Archaeology, art, and exoticism

In the shadow zone of imperial politics: archaeological research in Buryatia from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s / Ursula Brosseder

Imperial archaeology or an archaeology of exoticism? Victor Segalen's expeditions in early twentieth-century China / Jian Xu

Four German art historians in Republican China / Lothar von Falkenhausen

Part V. Colonial and post-colonial legacies

French archaeology and history in the colonial Maghreb: inheritance, presence, and absence / Matthew McCarty

The colonial origins of myth and national identity in Uganda / Peter R. Schmidt

Japanese colonial archaeology in Korea and its legacy / Yangjin Pak

The cloth of colonization: Peruvian tapestries in the Andes and in foreign museums / Maya Stanfield-Mazzi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781938770135

1938770137

OCLC:

1019834768

Publisher Number:

99976800162