Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of ArchaeologyGeoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers, and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage, and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested rights over sites, antiquities, and artifacts; the involvement of local communities in archaeological research; and the legal status of heritage sites. The book covers a range of hotly debated topics in contemporary archaeological practice, focusing particularly on the relationship between academic archaeologists and indigenous communities for whom the material remnants of the past that form the archaeological record may be part of a living tradition and anchors of social identity. |
Contents
The Values of the Past | 25 |
Whose Past? Archaeological Knowledge Community | 42 |
Heritage for the Majority? Cornelius Holtorf | 63 |
Rights of Possession | 82 |
On Archaeological Ethics and Letting Go | 98 |
Archaeology | 119 |
What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility? | 141 |
Contesting Religious Claims over Archaeological Sites | 156 |
Cultural Misrecognition | 195 |
Should Ruins Be Preserved? | 222 |
Legal Principles Political Processes and Cultural | 239 |
State Restrictions | 257 |
Looting or Rededication? Buddhism and | 281 |
Indias Archaeological Heritage | 295 |
References | 313 |
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