Who Needs the Past? (eBook, ePUB)

Indigenous Values and Archaeology
Redaktion: Layton, R.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135090630
• Artikelnr.: 38254492

Autorenporträt

Layton, R.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors Foreword Preface Introduction The Heritage of
Eurocentricity 1. The Western world view in archaeological atlases 2.
Public presentations and private concerns: archaeology in the pages of
National Geographic 3. American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted
past 4. Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape 5. Black
people and museums: the Caribbean Heritage Project in Southampton 6. `Volk
und Germanentum': the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany Rulers and
Ruled 7. Maori control of the Maori heritage 8. Nga Tukemata: Nga Taonga o
Ngati Kahungunu (The awakening: the treasures of Ngati Kahungunu) 9. God's
police and damned whores: images of archaeology in Hawaii 10. Aborignial
perceptions of the past: the implications for cultural resource management
in Australia 11. Search for the missing link: archaeology and the public in
Lebanon 12. The legacy of Eve 13. Museums: two case studies of reaction to
colonialism Politics and Administration 14. Cultural education in West
Africa: archaeological perspectives 15. The development of museums in
Botswana: dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state 16. A past abandoned?
Some experiences of a regional museum in Botswana 17. Archaeology and
museum work in the Solomon Islands 18. Fifty years of conservation
experience on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile Archaeology and the People
19. Didactic presentations of the past: some retrospective considerations
in relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, Lodz, Poland
20. Reconstruction as interpretation: the example of the Jorvik Viking
Centre, York 21. Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, a mid-18th century British
fortification: a case study in research archaeology, reconstruction, and
interpretive exhibits 22. Conservation and information in the display of
prehistoric sites 23. The epic of the Ekpu: ancestor figures of Oron,
south-east Nigeria Conclusion: archaeologists and others Index