Unmasking ideology in imperial and colonial archaeology : vocabulary, symbols, and legacy / edited by Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai.

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Main Authors: Effros, Bonnie, 1965- (Author, Editor), Lai, Guolong, 1967 November 30- (Author, Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, University of California, Los Angeles, [2018]
Series:Ideas, debates, and perspectives ; v. 8.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the global reach of imperial and colonial archaeology / Bonnie Effros and Guolong Lai
  • Part I. Defining approaches to imperial and colonial archaeology
  • Archaeology and imperialism: from nineteenth-century new imperialism to twentieth-century decolonization / Margarita Diaz-Andreu
  • German archaeology in occupied Europe during World War II: a case of colonial archaeology? / Hubert Fehr
  • Part II. Colonialism and nationalism
  • Problematizing the encylopedic museum: the Benin bronzes and ivories in historical context / Neil Brodie
  • Digging up China: imperialism, nationalism, and regionalism in the Yinxu excavation, 1928-1937 / Guolong Lai
  • They have not changed in 2,500 years: art, archaeology and modernity in Iran / Talinn Grigor
  • Part III. Indigenous voices
  • Colonialist archaeology in the American Southwest / Chip Colwell
  • The history of archaeology through the eyes of Egyptians / Wendy Doyon
  • Indigenous voices at the margins: nuancing the history of French colonial archaeology in Algeria, 1830-1870 / Bonnie Effros
  • Critiquing the discovery narrative of Lady Mungo / Ann McGrath
  • Part IV. Archaeology, art, and exoticism
  • In the shadow zone of imperial politics: archaeological research in Buryatia from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s / Ursula Brosseder
  • Imperial archaeology or an archaeology of exoticism? Victor Segalen's expeditions in early twentieth-century China / Jian Xu
  • Four German art historians in Republican China / Lothar von Falkenhausen
  • Part V. Colonial and post-colonial legacies
  • French archaeology and history in the colonial Maghreb: inheritance, presence, and absence / Matthew McCarty
  • The colonial origins of myth and national identity in Uganda / Peter R. Schmidt
  • Japanese colonial archaeology in Korea and its legacy / Yangjin Pak
  • The cloth of colonization: Peruvian tapestries in the Andes and in foreign museums / Maya Stanfield-Mazzi.