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.

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Language
English
Published/​Created
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2010.
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vi, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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      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.
      ISBN
      • 9780816527953 (hard cover : alk. paper)
      • 0816527954 (hard cover : alk. paper)
      LCCN
      2010025040
      OCLC
      617461673
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