A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)
believed that whites were their originators. In the south of the African continent, stone-walled structures in Zimbabwe traditio ...
expedition of 1897 against the Oba, in which troops entered the city of Great Benin sacking and burning it to the ground (Coombe ...
colonial archaeologists and anthropologists was merely unfounded conven- tion, but rather that the understanding so created was ...
only the wealthy could aVord the purchase of Great Civilization antiquities. The aim of colonial collections was to demonstrate ...
white Europeans were usually followed by creoles—although there were alternatives—and then by other peoples who were graded depe ...
On the other hand, institutions devoted to the civilized and uncivilized also diVered, in that the number and weight of the latt ...
interesting Tasmanian race’, which he had just described as one of the lowest races of non-Aryan origin, ‘had such a sad and unt ...
Stone Age. Some scholars argued an eastern origin for them, in this way making them foreign to the modern states in which they l ...
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11 The Early Search for a National Past in Europe (1789–1820) In the nineteenth century, the allure of the past of the Great Civ ...
decades of the century. Firstly, museums were created that focused on the exhibition of national antiquities. This transformatio ...
eradicate tradition: the names of streets and of the months were changed, and churches were either desecrated and used for other ...
As one antiquarian noted in 1852, with regard to successive editions of the museum catalogue, ‘the earliest are written in a hea ...
archaeology in the society led to the change of its name to the Society of Antiquaries of France (Socie ́te ́des antiquaires de ...
a powerful order reigned among them [the objects], a true order, one that reXected the sequence of ages. The perpetuity of the n ...
THE SCANDINAVIAN AND GERMANIC COUNTRIES: THE NATIONALIZATION OF PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY The nationalization of monuments and art ...
displayed (Klindt-Jensen 1975: 47). The relationship between both periods is further explained when we note that in Scandinavia ...
assembly places, and sacriWcial sites had been destroyed by road construction in Zealand, and that even those examples renowned ...
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