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Archaeology, nation and race : confronting the past, decolonizing the future in Greece and Israel /

Archaeology, Nation and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism. Structured as a lucid and lively dialogue between two leading scholars,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Greenberg, Raphael (Author), Hamilakis, Yannis, 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Subjects:
Archaeology > Political aspects.
Archaeology > Social aspects.
Archaeology and history.
Race.
Nationalism.
Imperialism.
Ethnoarchaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Political aspects > Israel.
Israel > Antiquities > Political aspects.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Political aspects > Greece.
Greece > Antiquities > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Table of Contents:
  • Dedication
  • List of illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The colonial origins of national archaeologies
  • Archaeology in the crypto-colony
  • Archaeology as purification
  • Whitening Greece and Israel: nation, race, and archaeogenetics
  • Decolonizing our imagination
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.