A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology: Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)
The historian Hans Kohn argued that this type of nationalism emerged in the West and was ‘rational’ as against cultural or ethni ...
‘the practice, theory and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan centre ruling a distant territory’ as against colonialism m ...
in the 1930s (Femia 1981: ch. 2), deals with the means by which domination is achieved through consent rather than naked force, ...
from the cultural essentialism that may be read into the previous sentence, the binary set Westerner-Other—a dualism that is ind ...
colonized’s opposition to the discourse of the past connected to the creation of a scientiWc narrative of origins in contrast wi ...
archaeology in the nineteenth century provided in this volume is based on the premise thatallarchaeological traditions were orig ...
creating a common language. This allowed the emergence of imagined com- munities formed by individuals who knew about each other ...
2000; Snodin 1991; Vlach 1995; Watkin 1992). In tune with the Enlighten- ment, those dealing with antiquities perceived their pr ...
time would show that, while their independence can only be understood in terms of the appearance of nationalism in Western Europ ...
from a political point of view. As a matter of fact, some of them were themselves empires, like the Ottoman Empire, China and, l ...
Egyptologists to work in the service. Moreover, these diYculties continued after his death. Hamada Kosaku and Tsuboi Shogoro in ...
religion, Christianity (i.e., no Jewish or indeed Muslim archaeologists were involved in its archaeology at this time), and many ...
Buddhism, as well as an intense involvement of philologists in archaeological research and the very timid appearance of theWrst ...
Chapter 8, one of the most interesting aspects of the comparison between the French and the Russian empires is the diversity in ...
strong, prestigious national archaeology. The aim of this block of chapters is to examine the reasons and processes by which pre ...
national heritage, increased steadily throughout the century. The post of General Inspector of Antiquities was created in France ...
histories of archaeology such as Glyn Daniel’s (1947; 1950) and those of many others after him. Chapter 13 explores the developm ...
their reports were for the imperial authorities in order to justify their rule. In this context the institutionalization of arch ...
that English-speaking archaeologists working in theWelds mentioned above are unfairly over-represented), his Encyclopedia of Arc ...
highlight a small component of broader international trends. In order to appreciate the reasons behind transformations in one si ...
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