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
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 |