A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)
important role for they wrote missionary reports that provide key informa- tion about life then and, more importantly for the is ...
occupation of Kabul in 1839 and to continuous rivalry between the two empires throughout the nineteenth century (Hopkirk 1994; M ...
Japanese religion, Shinto, and required to speak Japanese in schools and in business. Manchuria would also be at the heart of th ...
which was still in place at the time of the opening of the country to the Europeans (Barnes 1999: 28–9; Debaine-Francfort 1999: ...
Philological research and comparative religions First the Christian missions and then trade with the Orient inspired a tradition ...
though antiquities would not yet be the focus of academic interest. Abel- Re ́musat was succeeded by Stanislas Julien (1797–1873 ...
Sinologist Vasily Alekseev, in 1907 he travelled again to China, photographing and documenting antiquities and recording many an ...
the ruined sites nearby in a report of his trip, did not consider them important enough to photograph. It was not until theWndin ...
arising from the fakes that were intriguing philologists such as the Anglo- German Orientalist Augustus Rudolf Hoernle (1841–191 ...
Buddhist paintings on silk and the world’s oldest printed document, the Diamond Sutra, dating to 863ce. He was apparently able t ...
Library, the National Museum, New Delhi, the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert—a total of about 40,000 relics from his ...
those of the East. One of the most eVective ways to oppose cultural imperi- alism is to mimic the institutions created in the We ...
return to Japan, was appointed Professor of Archaeology in the History Department of Kyoto University (Ikawa-Smith 1982: 301). T ...
institutional location in a biology department, however, meant that none of his students pursued a career in archaeology (Bleed ...
‘scientiWc reasoning provides the sole guide to truth in all matters about which human beings may reliably know anything’ (Furth ...
(Lumbini), where they undertook archaeological research on Buddhist arte- facts. They returned to Japan with theirWnds in May 19 ...
through completely diVerent historical experiences. Some, like Turkey, were declining empires, whereas others, such as Italy and ...
only outside Mesoamerica and the Andean area were prehistoric remains taken into consideration. Hegemony implies consent. Archae ...
Europe in countries which did not participate—or only did so to a very limited extent—in the imperial venture. In nineteenth-cen ...
could, they amassed collections of objects that were displayed in the museums and private collections of the imperial cities. In ...
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