Book ID: CBB961079247

Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel (2022)

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Raphael Greenberg (Author)
Hamilakis, Yannis (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 234
Language: English

Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as a lucid and lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the volume compares modern Greece and modern Israel – two prototypical and influential cases – where archaeology sits at the very heart of the modern national imagination. Exchanging views on the foundational myths, moral economies, and racial prejudices in the field of archaeology and beyond, Hamilakis and Greenberg explore topics such as the colonial origins of national archaeologies, the crypto-colonization of the countries and their archaeologies, the role of archaeology as a process of purification, and the racialization and 'whitening' of Greece and Israel and their archaeological and material heritage. They conclude with a call for decolonization and the need to forge alliances with subjugated communities and new political movements.

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Authors & Contributors
Wade, Peter
López-Beltrán, Carlos
Santos, Ricardo Ventura
Ernesto Schwartz-Marín
Boer, Leo
Díaz-Andreu García, Margarita
Journals
Social Studies of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Antiquity
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry
Comparative Studies in Society and History
Israel Studies
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Duke University Press
Harvard University Press
Oxbow Books
Oxford University Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Nationalism
Race
Archaeology
Science and politics
Genetics
Colonialism
People
Du Bois, William Edward B.
Masterman, Ernest William Gurney
Orna, Mary Virginia
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
21st century
Iron age
Places
Israel
Latin America
Palestine
Jerusalem
Middle and Near East
Brazil
Institutions
Edelstein Center for the Analysis of Ancient Artifacts
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