Archaeology under fire : nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
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Archaeology under fire : nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
Routledge, 1998
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean are some of the most politically charged regions in which archaeology is implicated. Historically, they played a formative role in the birth of archaeology as a discipline. Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology's role in current political issues, including the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, and the continued destruction of Beirut. The contributors consider the positive role of the past as a means of reconciliation, whether it be in Turkey, Israel, and the Gulf. They advocate a responsible global archaeology, and an awareness of contemporary issues can only enhance this aim.
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
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