Archaeology Under Fire. Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, 1998
(Chapters 2, 3, and 4)
 
The past is ours. Images of Greek Macedonia, Kostas Kotsakis
Introduction
The constitution of Macedonia as a research object  –  A quest for continuity: the formation of modern Greek national identity  –  Archeology as defence: the 'Vergina Syndrome'  –  Bounded entities: in search of identities  –  Epilogue  –  Bibliography

Contests of heritage and the politics of preservation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, K. S. Brown
Introduction
Political background  –  History, politics and Balkan landscapes  –  Modern Macedonia: the levels of opposition  –  Local consequences  –  The unmaking of community: the destruction of Trstenik  –  The presence of the past: a private destruction  –  Monumental memories: the intervention of the state  –  Conclusion: the ethnography of built landscape  –  Bibliography
 
Bulgarian archaeology. Ideology, sociopolitics and the exotic, Douglass W. Bailey
Introduction
Exoticism: The Balkans, Bulgaria and the past  –  Foreign marginalisation   –   Internal auto-exoticisation   –   The praxis of Bulgarian archaeology  –  Archaeological participants: audience and practitioners:  Practitioners as ideologues; Arhaeologists and political institutions; Archaeologists as political intelligentsia; Archaeologists as custodians, arbiters and interpreters; Trends in interpretation  –  De-exoticising Bulgarian archaeology. Internal action, External action   –  Bibliography
 

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Archaeology Under Fire. Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Edited by Lynn Meskell. Routledge, London and New York, 1998.
(c) selection and editorial material, Lynn Meskell; individual chapters, the contributors

 Contents:
  Introduction: Archaeology matters
Lynn Meskell
1
1. Archaeology, politics and the cultural heritage of Cyprus 
A. Bernard Knapp and Sophia Antoniadou
13
2. The past is ours: images of Greek Macedonia
Kostas Kotsakis
44
3. Contests of heritage and the politics of preservation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
K. S. Brown
68
4. Bulgarian archaeology: ideology, sociopolitics and the exotic
Douglass W. Bailey
87
5. Ideology and archaeology in Turkey
Mehmet Ozdogan
111
6. The past as passion and play: Qatalhoilyuk as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts
Ian Hodder
124
7. Beirut's memorycide: bear no evil, see no evil 
Albert Farid Henry Naccache
140
8. Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past
Zainab Bahrani
159
9. Whose game is it anyway? The political and social transformations of American Biblical Archaeology
Neil Asher Silberman
175
10. The Gulf Arab states and their archaeology
D. T. Potts
189
11. Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt
Fekri A. Hassan
200
12. Ancient Egypt in America: claiming the riches
Ann Macy Roth
217
   Index  230