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Controlling the past, owning the future : the political uses of archaeology in the Middle East
- Title
- Controlling the past, owning the future : the political uses of archaeology in the Middle East / edited by Ran Boytner, Lynn Swartz Dodd, and Bradley J. Parker.
- Publication
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- vi, 312 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Archaeology > Political aspects > Middle East
- Archaeology and state > Middle East
- Cultural property > Protection > Middle East
- Cultural property > Government policy > Middle East
- Nationalism > Middle East > History
- Middle East > Antiquities > Political aspects
- Middle East > Antiquities > Collection and preservation
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Filtering the past : archaeology, politics, and change / Lynn Swartz Dodd and Ran Boytner -- Heritage politics : learning from Mullah Omar? / Reinhard Bernbeck -- Archaeology and nationalism in Iraq, 1921-2003 / Magnus T. Bernhardsson -- Political excavations of the Anatolian past : nationalism and archaeology in Turkey / Asli Gür -- By the rivers of change : strategists on the heritage front / Sandra Scham -- Undermining the edifice of ethnocentric historical narrative in Israel with community-based archaeology / David Ilan and Yuval Gadot -- Who owns the past? : the role of nationalism, politics, and profit in presenting Israel's archaeological sites to the public / Ann E. Killebrew -- Heritage appropriation in the Holy Land / Adel H. Yahya -- Exploring heritage discourses in central Jordan / Danielle Steen ... [et al.] -- From practical knowledge to empowered communication : field schools of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt / Willeke Wendrich -- Decolonizing archaeology : political economy and archaeological practice in the Middle East / Susan Pollock -- We are all Middle Easterners now : globalization, immanence, archaeology / Yannis Hamilakis -- Potential abuses and uses of the remote past in the Middle East (and elsewhere) / Philip L. Kohl.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-260
- ISBN
- 9780816527953 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- 0816527954 (hard cover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010025040
- OCLC
- YBP 2010025040
- Title
- Controlling the past, owning the future : the political uses of archaeology in the Middle East / edited by Ran Boytner, Lynn Swartz Dodd, and Bradley J. Parker.
- Imprint
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Boytner, Ran, 1962-Dodd, Lynn Swartz, 1964-Parker, Bradley J., 1962-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-260