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Archaeology Under Fire Lynn Meskell

Archaeology Under Fire By Lynn Meskell

Archaeology Under Fire by Lynn Meskell


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Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology's role in current political issues, whether it be the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, or the continued destruction of Beirut.

Archaeology Under Fire Summary

Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East by Lynn Meskell

Archaeology and politics is a hot topic with no work done yet on the Middle East

Balanced approach, with opposing views presented throughout

Editor is a rising star in archaeology

A critical look at the realities of 'doing' archaeology in areas where it is a contentious subject

Highly controversial - publicity potential

About Lynn Meskell

Lynn Meskell is Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. She has undertaken fieldwork in Egypt, Cyprus and Greece. Her research interests include Egyptian and Mediterranean archaeologies, the application of feminist theory and sociopolitics to archaeology and she has written extensively on these subjects.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations, List of contributors, Introduction: Archaeology matters, 1 Archaeology, politics and the cultural heritage of Cyprus, 2 The past is ours: images of Greek Macedonia, 3 Contests of heritage and the politics of preservation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 4 Bulgarian archaeology: ideology, sociopolitics and the exotic, 5 Ideology and archaeology in Turkey, 6 The past as passion and play: Catalhoeyuk as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts, 7 Beirut's memorycide: hear no evil, see no evil, 8 Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past, 9 Whose game is it anyway? The political and social transformations of American Biblical Archaeology Neil Asher, 10 The Gulf Arab states and their archaeology, 11 Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt, 12 Ancient Egypt in America: claiming the riches, Index

Additional information

NLS9780415196550
9780415196550
0415196558
Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East by Lynn Meskell
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
1998-11-12
264
N/A
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