ARCHEOLOGY IN THE CONSTRUCTION, COMMEMORATION, AND CONSECRATION OF NATIONAL PASTS. Selective Remembrances (Chicago, 2007)

Philip L. Kohl (Editor), Mara Kozelsky (Editor), Nachman Ben-Yehuda (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0226450597 / ISBN 13: 9780226450599

Published by University of Chicago Press, 2008

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Arqueología Ultilización de la Arqueología Identidad Nacional Ed. Universiti Chicago. 426 págs. 15 x 23 cm. Cuando cambia la geografía política, los gobiernos, a menudo, usan la arqueología para crear en los habitantes sentimientos nacionalistas y forjar identidades nacionales, como estos ensayos demuestran GASTOS DE ENVÍO ORDINARIO HASTA 1 KILO, GRATIS. (3,50 el Kilo de más o fracción) Los PEDIDOS DE MENOS DE 6 euros tienen unos gastos de 1 euro.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ARCHEOLOGY IN THE CONSTRUCTION, COMMEMORATION, AND CONSECRATION OF NATIONAL PASTS. Selective Remembrances (Chicago, 2007)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226450597
• ISBN 13: 9780226450599
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.