Cosmopolitan archaeologies:

This book challenges cherished assumptions about the practice of archaeology and the shaping and implications of interpretation. Drawing on recent work in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the authors show how the past is understood in the present and how dispensations of p...

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Weitere Verfasser: Meskell, Lynn (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham, NC Duke University Press [2009]
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Schriftenreihe:Material worlds
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Zusammenfassung:This book challenges cherished assumptions about the practice of archaeology and the shaping and implications of interpretation. Drawing on recent work in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the authors show how the past is understood in the present and how dispensations of power generate ethics of practice. Through closely argued exemplars, the contributors show how broad interpretations are shaped in the cauldron of the local, and how the global must be understood from within the framework of diverse communities
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ISBN:1478091452
9781478091455

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