Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts - Softcover

 
9780226450599: Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
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ISBN 10: 0226450597 ISBN 13: 9780226450599
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal, they turn to archaeology, employing the field and its findings to develop nationalistic feelings and forge legitimate distinctive national identities.

Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, Selective Remembrances shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. Religion has long played a key role in such efforts, and the contributors take care to demonstrate the tendency of many people, including archaeologists themselves, to view the world through a religious lens—which can be exploited by new regimes to suppress objective study of the past and justify contemporary political actions.

The wide geographic and intellectual range of the essays in Selective Remembrances will make it a seminal text for archaeologists and historians.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Philip Kohl is professor of anthropology and the Davis Professor of Slavic Studies at Wellesley College. Mara Kozelsky is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama. Nachman Ben-Yehuda is professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226450597
ISBN 13 
9780226450599
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
434
Herausgeber
Kohl Philip L., Kozelsky Mara, Ben-Yehuda Nachman
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