Appropriating the past : philosophical perspectives on the practice of archaeology / edited by Geoffrey Scarre, University of Durham, Robin Coningham, University of Durham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scarre, Geoffrey, editor.

Coningham, Robin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology--Philosophy.

Archaeology.

Archaeology--Moral and ethical aspects.

Indigenous peoples--Antiquities--Collection and preservation.

Indigenous peoples.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 353 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested rights over sites, antiquities and artifacts; the involvement of local communities in archaeological research; and the legal status of heritage sites. The book covers a range of hotly debated topics in contemporary archaeological practice, focusing particularly on the relationship between academic archaeologists and indigenous communities for whom the material remnants of the past that form the archaeological record may be part of a living tradition and anchors of social identity.

Contents:

Introduction / Geoffrey Scarre and Robin Coningham

Claiming the past. The values of the past / James O. Young

Whose past? : archaeological knowledge, community knowledge, and the embracing of conflict / Piotr Bienkowski

The past people want : heritage for the majority? / Cornelius Holtorf

The ethics of repatriation : rights of possession and duties of respect / Janna Thompson

On archaeological ethics and letting go / Larry J. Zimmerman

Hintang and the dilemma of benevolence : archaeology and ecotourism in Laos / Anna Källén

Problems of meaning and method. What is a crisis of intelligibility? / Jonathan Lear

Contesting religious claims over archaeological sites / Elizabeth Burns Coleman

Multivocality and "wikiality" : the epistemology and ethics of a pragmatic archaeology / Alexander A. Bauer

"Do not do unto others ..." : cultural misrecognition and the harms of appropriation in an open-source world / George P. Nicholas and Alison Wylie

Should ruins be preserved? / David E. Cooper

Problems of ownership and control. Legal principles, political processes, and cultural property / Tom Allen

Monuments versus movables : state restrictions on cultural property rights / David Garrard

Looting or rededication? : Buddhism and the expropriation of relics / Robin Coningham and Prishanta Gunawardhana

Partitioning the past : India's archaeological heritage after independence / Nayanjot Lahiri.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Contains: Young, James O., 1957- Values of the past.

ISBN:

1-139-79312-8

1-316-08874-X

1-107-25332-2

1-139-77874-9

1-139-77570-7

1-139-78173-1

1-139-02693-3

1-283-74137-7

1-139-77722-X

OCLC:

817224884