Format:
Online-Ressource (348 p.)
ISBN:
9780415095549
Series Statement:
One world archaeology v.v.12
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors page; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Introduction; The Western world view in archaeological atlases; Public presentations and private concerns: archaeology in the pages of National Geographic; American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past; Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape; Black people and museums: the Caribbean Heritage Project in Southampton; 'Volk und Germanentum': the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany; Introduction; Maori control of the Maori heritage
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Nga Tukemata: Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The awakening: the treasures of Ngati Kahungunu)God's police and damned whores: images of archaeology in Hawaii; Aboriginal perceptions of the past: the implications for cultural resource management in Australia; Search for the missing link: archaeology and the public in Lebanon; The legacy of Eve; Museums: two case studies of reaction to colonialism; Introduction; Cultural education in West Africa: archaeological perspectives; The development of museums in Botswana: dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state
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A past abandoned? Some experiences of a regional museum in BotswanaArchaeology and museum work in the Solomon Islands; Fifty years of conservation experience on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile; Introduction; Didactic presentations of the past: some retrospective considerations in relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, d, Poland; Reconstruction as interpretation: the example of the Jorvik Viking Centre, York; Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, a mid-18th century British fortification: a case study in research archaeology, reconstruction, and interpretive exhibits
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Conservation and information in the display of prehistoric sitesThe epic of the Ekpu: ancestor figures of Oron, south-east Nigeria; Conclusion: archaeologists and others; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203167892
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415095549
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Politics of the Past
Language:
English
Keywords:
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