Cosmopolitan archaeologies / Lynn Meskell, editor
- Bib ID:
- 4609555
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Durham : Duke University Press, c2009
- 296 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780822344322
- 0822344327
- 9780822344445
- 0822344440
- Series:
- Material worlds (Duke University Press)
- Summary:
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Collection of essays that consider archaeology as a global project that must attend to the cultural, political, and historical specificity of archaeological sites, while also taking into account transnational questions of human rights and heritage preserv.
- Full contents:
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- Introduction : cosmopolitan heritage ethics / Lynn Meskell
- Young and free : the Australian past in a global future / Jane Lydon
- Strangers and brothers? : heritage, human rights, and cosmopolitan archaeology in Oceania / Ian Lilley
- Archaeology and the fortress of rationality / Denis Byrne
- The nature of culture in Kruger National Park / Lynn Meskell
- Vernacular cosmopolitanism : an archaeological critique of universalistic reason / Alfredo González-Ruibal
- The archaeologist as a world citizen : on the morals of heritage preservation and destruction / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
- "Time's wheel runs back" : conversations with the Middle Eastern past / Sandra Arnold Scham
- Mavili's voice / Ian Hodder
- "Walking around like they own the place" : quotidian cosmopolitanism at a Maya and World Heritage archaeological site / Lisa Breglia
- Translating Ecuadorian modernities : pre-Hispanic archaeology and the reproduction of global difference / O. Hugo Benavides.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-283) and index.
- Subject:
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- Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Archaeology -- Political aspects
- Cultural property -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Archaeologists -- Professional ethics
- Archaeology
- Cultural heritage - Protection
- Indigenous peoples
- Gundjeihmi / Kundjeymi people (N71) (NT SD53-01)
- Research - Ethics
- Indigenous peoples - Pacific - Kanakas
- Djaburluku / Jabiluka (Kakadu, NT SD53-01)
- Other authors/contributors:
- Meskell, Lynn
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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