An illuminating and provocative look at historical interpretation, which draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in archaeology.
'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America, Australasia and Oceania than on Europe, the source of the traditionally dominant perspective in archaeology. The four organizing themes of The Politics of the Past are the forms and consequences of the Eurocentric heritage, the conflicting perspectives of rulers and ruled, the significance of administrative and institutional rivalries, and the cleavages that divide professional from popular views of archaeology.
Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and other scholars will find The Politics of the Past illuminating and provocative. It will enrich historical and archaeological inquiry and interpretation, and ramify their relevance for public policy.
Recenzijas
'This book deals with ideas about cultural control and ownership and the reconstruction of past reality...Anyone who still thinks the past is, or can be, apolitical would do well to read it, whether their interest is in portable objects, in monuments or in abstract ideas.' - Antiquity
`An anthology containing vital material' - Tim Megarry, Greenwich University
'The essays in this volume are valuable and thought-provoking. - American Antiquity
'...these volumes retain their contemporary relevance and their value as collections or related papers.' - Harry Allen, Anthropology Department, University of Auckland.
'Well worth reading' - Man
Introduction THE HERITAGE OF EUROCENTRITY 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 Gods police and damned whores: images of archaeology in Hawaii
10 Aboriginal 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 Sandy Grant 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, Lódz, 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. Conclusion:
archaeologists and others
Peter Gathercole, Darwin College, Cambridge. David Lowenthal, University College London.
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