Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415196558 ISBN 13: 9780415196550

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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. A. Bernard Knapp, University of Glasgow, UK; Sophia Antoniadou, University of Edinburgh, UK; Kostas Kotsakis University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Keith Brown, University of

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Review:

"The volume is a good example of the new kinds of studies now being conducted with archaeological information. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
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About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415196558
• ISBN 13: 9780415196550
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Meskell Lynn