Selective Remembrances

Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts

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

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Hardcover | 1 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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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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"In this deeply intriguing and appealing book, expert contributors explore a wide and varied set of political, cultural, and ethical issues. Not only will this excellent collection be formative for the history and practice of archaeology for years to come, but it may also be hotly debated in the various regions it describes." - Suzanne Marchand, author of Down from Olympus"

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Introduction: Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts	p. 1
Russia and Eastern Europe
Russian Response: Archaeology, Russian Nationalism, and the "Arctic Homeland"	p. 31
The Challenges of Church Archaeology in Post-Soviet Crimea	p. 71
The Writing of Caucasian Albania: Facts and Falsifications	p. 99
Archaeology and Nationalism in The History of the Romanians	p. 127
The Near East
The Rise of the Hittite Sun: A Deconstruction of Western Civilization from the Margin	p. 163
The Sense of Belonging: The Politics of Archaeology in Modern Iraq	p. 189
The Name Game: The Persian Gulf, Archaeologists, and the Politics of Arab-Iranian Relations	p. 206
Israel/Palestine
Excavating Masada: The Politics-Archaeology Connection at Work	p. 247
Recovering Authenticity: West-Bank Settlers and the Second Stage of National Archaeology	p. 277
Appropriating the Past: Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel	p. 299
An Archaeology of Palestine: Mourning a Dream	p. 326
South and Southeast Asia
The Aryan Homeland Debate in India	p. 349
The Impact of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Archaeology of Thailand	p. 379
Contributors	p. 401
Index	p. 405
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