Controlling the Past, Owning the Future
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What are the political uses, and misuses, of archaeology in the Middle East? The contributors to this volume discuss a variety of case studies, including the Taliban's destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan, the commercialization of archaeology in Israel, and the debate over Turkish identity sparked by the film Troy, and in the process form various views of the role of the archaeologist, from steward of the historical record to agent of social change.

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What are the political uses, and misuses, of archaeology in the Middle East? The contributors to this volume discuss a variety of case studies, including the Taliban's destruction of Buddhas in Afghanistan, the commercialization of archaeology in Israel, and the debate over Turkish identity sparked by the film Troy, and in the process form various views of the role of the archaeologist, from steward of the historical record to agent of social change.
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Autorenporträt
Ran Boytner is the director for International Research at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Southern California. Lynn Swartz Dodd currently serves as a lecturer and curator for the Archaeological Research Collection at the University of Southern California. Bradley J. Parker is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah and author of The Mechanics of Empire.