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Title

Ethics and the archaeology of violence / Alfredo Gonzáles-Ruibal, Gabriel Moshenska, editors.

Publication

• New York : Springer, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• González Ruibal, Alfredo
• Moshenska, Gabriel
• World Archaeological Congress (Organization)

Description

xvii, 243 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing archaeologists working in areas of violent conflict, past and present. Of all the contentious issues within archaeology and heritage, the study of conflict and work within conflict zones are undoubtedly the most highly charged and hotly debated, both within and outside the discipline. Ranging across the conflict zones of the world past and present, this book attempts to raise the level of these often fractious debates by locating them within ethical frameworks. The issues and debates in this book range across a range of ethical models, including deontological, teleological and virtue ethics. The chapters address real-world ethical conundrums that confront archaeologists in a diversity of countries, including Israel/Palestine, Iran, Uruguay, Argentina, Rwanda, Germany and Spain. They all have in common recent, traumatic experiences of war and dictatorship. The chapters provide carefully argued, thought-provoking analyses and examples that will be of real practical use to archaeologists in formulating and addressing ethical dilemmas in a confident and constructive manner.

Series Statement

Ethical archaeologies ; 2

Uniform Title

Ethical archaeologies ; 2.

Subject

• Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Violence > Moral and ethical aspects
• Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects

Note

• "World Archaeological Congress."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The only way is ethics / Gabriel Moshenska and Alfredo González-Ruibal -- Ethics in action : a viewpoint from Israel/Palestine / Raphael Greenberg -- Archaeological ethics and violence in post-genocide Rwanda / John Giblin -- All our findings are under their boots! : the monologue of violence in Iranian archaeology / Maryan Dezhamkhooy, Leila Papoli Yazdi, and Omran Garazhian -- Archaeology of historical conflicts, colonial oppression, and political violence in Uruguay / José María López Mazz -- Discussing the spaces of memory in Buenos Aires : official narratives and the challenges of site management / Melisa A. Salerno and Andrés Zarankin -- Ethnics, archaeology, and civil conflict : the case of Spain / Alfredo Gozález-Ruibal, Xurxo Ayán Vila, and Rachel Caesar -- A gate to a darker world : excavating at the Tempelhof Airport / Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck -- Archaeology, national socialism and rehabilitation : the case of Herbert Jankuhn, 1905-1990 / Monika Steinel -- The ethics of public engagement in the archaeology of modern conflict / Gabriel Moshenska -- Partnership versus guns : military advocacy of peaceful approaches for cultural property protection / Laurie W. Rush -- Cognitive dissonance and the military archaeology complex / Derek Congram -- Working as a forensic archaeologist and/or anthropologist in post-conflict contexts : a consideration of professional responsibilities to the missing, the dead and their relatives / Soren Blau -- Virtues impracticable and extremely difficult : the human rights of subsistence diggers / San Hardy.

ISBN

• 9781493916429
• 1493916424
• 9781493937318
• 1493937316
• 9781493916436 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014950680

OCLC

903485652

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library