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Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and
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Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts Hardcover - 2007

by Philip L. Kohl (Editor); Mara Kozelsky (Editor); Nachman Ben-Yehuda (Editor)


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When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal, they turn to archaeology, employing the field and its findings to develop nationalistic feelings and forge legitimate distinctive national identities. Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, Selective Remembrances shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. Religion has long played a key role in such efforts, and the contributors take care to demonstrate the tendency of many people, including archaeologists themselves, to view the world through a religious lens--which can be exploited by new regimes to suppress objective study of the past and justify contemporary political actions. The wide geographic and intellectual range of the essays in Selective Remembrances will make it a seminal text for archaeologists and historians.

Details

  • Title Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts
  • Author Philip L. Kohl (Editor); Mara Kozelsky (Editor); Nachman Ben-Yehuda (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2007
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780226450582 / 0226450589
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.93 x 6.46 x 1.1 in (22.68 x 16.41 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Nationalism, Historiography - Political aspects
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007017497
  • Dewey Decimal Code 930.1

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  • Choice, 02/01/2009, Page 0

About the author

Philip Kohl is professor of anthropology and the Davis Professor of Slavic Studies at Wellesley College. Mara Kozelsky is assistant professor of history at the University of South Alabama. Nachman Ben-Yehuda is professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.