Cosmopolitan archaeologies

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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…

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Full title :Cosmopolitan archaeologies / Lynn Meskell, editor.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham, NC
Language:eng
Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

Description:296 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822344322, 0822344327, 9780822344445, 0822344440
oclc:ocn276995587
LC Classification:CC175
Dewey Decimal:930.1

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15.30 archaeology: general Archaeologists -- Professional ethics Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects Archaeology -- Political aspects Archäologie Archéologie -- Aspect moral Archéologie -- Aspect politique Archéologues -- Déontologie Arkeologer -- yrkesetik Arkeologi -- etik och moral Arkeologi -- politiska aspekter Aufsatzsammlung Cultural property -- Moral and ethical … Cultuurgoed Ethik Ethische aspecten Kulturarv -- etik och moral Kulturerbe Politik