A Future for ArchaeologyRobert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter Stone Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely practical and direct way, for example in the disputes about the repatriation of human burials. Such disputes have been central to the recognition that previously marginalized groups have rights in their own past that are important for their future. The essays in this book look back at some of the most important events where a role for an archaeology concerned with the past in the present first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical issues now central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its future. This book is published in honor of Professor Peter Ucko, who has played an unparalleled role in promoting awareness of the core issues in this volume among archaeologists. |
Contents
REPOSITIONING ANTHROPOLOGY 19721980 | |
PETER UCKO AND THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS WAC | |
ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS THE WORLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS | |
THE WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION MANAGEMENT BY AND FOR WHOM? | |
INDIGENOUS HUMAN REMAINS AND CHANGING MUSEUM IDEOLOGY | |
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE MOSES | |
THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF LOCAL MYTHS AND HERITAGE TOURISM THE CASE | |
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A Future for Archaeology: The Past in the Present Robert Layton,Stephen Shennan,Peter G. Stone No preview available - 2006 |
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