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Yiakoumaki, V. (2011) On bureaucratic essentialisms: Constructing the Mediterranean in
European Union institutions, in Contested Mediterranean Spaces: Ethnographic Essays in
Honour of Charles Tilly (eds M. Kousis, T. Selwyn and D.Clark), New York and Oxford:
Berghahn, pp. 17–34.
Further ReadingBahloul, J. (1996) The Architecture of Memory: A Jewish-Muslim Household in Colonial Algeria,
1937–1962, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A hauntingly beautiful exploration of diaspora and displacement and memories, both contested
and shared, of the spatial dimensions and political limits of Arab-Jewish coexistence in
Algeria.
Herzfeld, M. (1987) Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the
Margins of Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This work pre-dates much of the discussion of heritage, is an exploration of the common
roots of the Greek nation-state and of anthropology, and thus in key respects foreshadows
and contextualizes the ironies discussed in the present essay.
Macdonald, S. (2013) Memorylands: Heritage and Identity in Europe Today, Abingdon:
Routledge.
Although not specifically about the Mediterranean, and largely confined to European exam-
ples, this book explores pertinent contemporary issues in the management and recognition
of heritage in a theoretically-balanced and historically-sophisticated overview.
Mitchell, J.P. (2002) Ambivalent Europeans: Ritual, Memory and the Public Sphere in Malta,
London: Routledge.
This ethnographic study pays close attention to the management of history and heritage in
lived spaces in Malta, a Mediterranean island state that confronts both Arab and European
cultural and linguistic origins.
Odermatt, P. (1996) Built heritage and the politics of (re)presentation: Local reactions to the
appropriation of the monumental past in Sardinia. Archaeological Dialogues, 3: 95–136.
A useful exploration of local responses to official archaeological practices, this article could
usefully be read in conjunction with Heatherington, 2010.
Stewart, C. (2010) Immanent or eminent domain? The contest over Thessaloniki’s rotonda, in
Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece (eds A. Stroulia and
S. Buck Sutton), Lanham: Lexington Books/Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 179–200.
This is a particularly well-documented example of the struggle between religious and secular
authorities over the use of a historic space (in Thessaloniki, Greece) invested with
nationalistic implications.