Unmasking ideology in imperial and colonial archaeology : vocabulary, symbols, and legacy

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles, [2018] and ©2018

Subject:

Archaeology - Political aspects
Archaeology - Social aspects
Antiquities - Collection and preservation - Political aspects
Antiquities - Collection and preservation - Social aspects
Imperialism - Social aspects

Contributor:

Effros, Bonnie, editor, author
Lai, Guolong, editor, author

ISBN:

9781938770135 and 1938770137

Series:

Ideas, debates, and perspectives

Description:

xxxi, 467 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The global reach of imperial and colonial archaeology / Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai -- Defining approaches to imperial and colonial archaeology -- Archaeology and imperialism: from nineteenth-century new imperialism to twentieth-century decolonization / Margarita Diaz-Andreu -- German archaeology in occupied Europe during World War II: a case of colonial archaeology? / Hubert Fehr -- Colonialism and nationalism -- Problematizing the encylopedic museum: the Benin bronzes and ivories in historical context / Neil Brodie -- Digging up China: imperialism, nationalism, and regionalism in the Yinxu excavation, 1928-1937 / Guolong Lai -- They have not changed in 2,500 years: art, archaeology and modernity in Iran / Talinn Grigor -- Indigenous voices -- The Entanglement of Native Americans and Colonialist Archaeology in the Southwestern United States / Chip Colwell -- The history of archaeology through the eyes of Egyptians / Wendy Doyon -- Indigenous voices at the margins: nuancing the history of French colonial archaeology in nineteenth-century Algeria / Bonnie Effros -- Critiquing the discovery narrative of Lady Mungo / Ann McGrath -- Archaeology, art, and exoticism -- In the shadow zone of imperial politics: archaeological research in Buryatia from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s / Ursula B Brosseder -- Imperial archaeology or an archaeology of exoticism? Victor Segalen's expeditions in early twentieth-century China / Jian Xu -- Four German art historians in Republican China / Lothar von Falkenhausen -- Colonial and post-colonial legacies -- French archaeology and history in the colonial Maghreb: inheritance, presence, and absence / Matthew M. McCarty -- The colonial origins of myth and national identity in Uganda / Peter R. Schmidt -- Japanese colonial archaeology in Korea and its legacy / Yangjin Pak -- The cloth of colonization: Peruvian tapestries in the Andes and in foreign museums / Maya Stanfield-Mazzi

Summary:

This volume addresses the entanglement between archaeology, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism, and war. Popular sentiment in the West has tended to embrace the adventure rather than ponder the legacy of archaeological explorers. Allegations by imperial powers of "discovering" archaeological sites or "saving" world heritage from neglect or destruction have often provided the pretext for expanding political might. Consequently, Indigenous populations often fell victim to imperialism, while seeing their lands confiscated, artifacts looted, and the ancient remains in their midst commodified. Spanning the globe with case studies from East Asia, Siberia, Australia, North and South America, Europe, and Africa, sixteen contributions written by archaeologists, art historians, and historians from four continents offer unusual breadth and depth in the assessment of various facets of claims to patrimonial heritage in the context of imperial and colonial ventures of the last two centuries, and their post-colonial legacy

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

CC175 .U56 2018

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