Selective Remembrances

Contents
 
Introduction
Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
PHILIP L. KOHL, MARA KOZELSKY, AND NACHMAN BEN-YEHUDA
 
 
Part One: Russia and Eastern Europe
 
1 Russian Response
Archaeology, Russian Nationalism, and the “Arctic Homeland”
VICTOR A. SHNIRELMAN
 
2 The Challenges of Church Archaeology in Post-Soviet Crimea
MARA KOZELSKY
 
3 The Writing of Caucasian Albania
Facts and Falsifications
MURTAZALI S. GADJIEV
 
4 Archaeology and Nationalism in The History of the Romanians
GHEORGHE ALEXANDRU NICULESCU
 
 
Part Two: The Near East
 
5 The Rise of the Hittite Sun
A Deconstruction of Western Civilization from the Margin
WENDY SHAW
 
6 The Sense of Belonging
The Politics of Archaeology in Modern Iraq
MAGNUS T. BERNHARDSSON
 
7 The Name Game
The Persian Gulf, Archaeologists, and the Politics of Arab-Iranian Relations
KAMYAR ABDI
 
 
Part Three: Israel/Palestine
 
8 Excavating Masada
The Politics-Archaeology Connection at Work
NACHMAN BEN-YEHUDA
 
9 Recovering Authenticity
West-Bank Settlers and the Second Stage of National Archaeology
MICHAEL FEIGE
 
10 Appropriating the Past
Heritage, Tourism, and Archaeology in Israel
UZI BARAM
 
11 An Archaeology of Palestine
Mourning a Dream
GHADA ZIADEH-SEELY
 
 
Part Four: South and Southeast Asia
 
12 The Aryan Homeland Debate in India
SHEREEN RATNAGAR
 
13 The Impact of Colonialism and Nationalism in the Archaeology of Thailand
RASMI SHOOCONGDEJ
 
Contributors
Index