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Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology

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ISBN-10: 0521558395

ISBN-13: 9780521558396

Edition: 1996

Authors: Philip L. Kohl, Clare Fawcett

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This is an edited collection exploring political misuse of archaeology for nationalistic purposes. The chapters draw out some of the common threads in these experiences, and argue that archaeologists need to be more sophisticated in their studies.
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Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/8/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Introduction: Archaeology in the Service of the State: Theoretical Considerations
Western Europe
Civilization, barbarism, and nationalism in European archaeology
Archaeology and nationalism in Spain Margarita
Nationalism and Copper Age research in Portugal during the Salazar Regime (1932-1974)
Archaeology in Nazi Germany: the legacy of Faustian bargain
Nazi and eco-feminist prehistories: ideology and empiricism in Indo-European archaeology
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Archaeology and ideology in Southeast Europe
From internationalism to nationalism: forgotten pages of soviet archaeology in the 1930s and 1940s
Postscript: Russian archaeology after the collapse of the USSR infrastructural crisis and the resurgence of old and new nationalism
Nationalism, politics and the practice of archaeology in the Caucasus
East Asia
Thirty years of Chinese archaeology (1949-1979)
The regionalist paradigm in Chinese archaeology Lothar
The politics of ethnicity in prehistoric Korea
Nationalism and postwar Japanese archaeology
Commentary
Promised lands and chosen peoples: the politics and poetics of archaeological narrative Neil
Romanticism, nationalism and archaeology