Appropriating the Past : Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology


Geoffrey. Scarre
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013
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1 online resource (370 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; APPROPRIATING THE PAST: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Editors; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; PART ONE: Claiming the Past; CHAPTER 2 The Values of the Past; GENERAL REFLECTIONS; COGNITIVE VALUE; ECONOMIC VALUE; CULTURAL VALUE; COSMOPOLITAN VALUE; WEIGHING VALUES; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 3 Whose Past? Archaeological Knowledge, Community Knowledge, and the Embracing of Conflict; INTRODUCTION; HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AS A CULTURAL PRACTICE; LINDOW MAN IN MANCHESTER; PARALLEL CASE STUDIES, INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENOUS. - AUTHORITY, CONFLICT, AND DISSENSUSHERITAGE INSTITUTIONS AS POLITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC SPACES; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION; CHAPTER 4 The Past People Want: Heritage for the Majority?; THE RETURN OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE; THE POLITICS AND ETHICS OF BUILDING THE PAST; THE BEAUTY OF DRESDEN NEUMARKT; THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECONSTRUCTING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE SERVING THE PUBLIC; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 5 The Ethics of Repatriation: Rights of Possession and Duties of Respect; CRITERIA OF OWNERSHIP; QUESTIONS ABOUT OWNERSHIP; LEGITIMATE ACQUISITIONS; ANCIENT BONES. - CHAPTER 6 On Archaeological Ethics and Letting GoETHICS, SCHMETHICS; LETTING GO IS NOT UNUSUAL FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS; REPATRIATION AND ARCHAEOLOGYS MALADAPTIVE ETHICS; LETTING GO IS NECESSARY FOR COLLABORATION; CONCLUSIONS; CHAPTER 7 Hintang and the Dilemma of Benevolence: Archaeology and Ecotourism in Laos; ARRIVAL; ECOTOURISM IN LAOS; Close-to-Nature Aesthetics; Benevolence; Adventure; INDIANA JONES AND TIME TRAVEL: ARCHAEOLOGY AND ECOTOURISM; INDOCHINA GENEALOGIES; HINTANG, ECOTOURISM, AND THE DILEMMA OF BENEVOLENCE; ALTERNATIVE TOURISM - ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES?; ACKNOWLEDGMENT. - PART TWO: Problems of Meaning and MethodCHAPTER 8 What Is a Crisis of Intelligibility?; CHAPTER 9 Contesting Religious Claims over Archaeological Sites; HISTORICAL CONTINUITY AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF; The New Mexico Pottery Mound Mural; The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Controversy; Stonehenge; RELIGION AND ITS VALUE; SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; CHAPTER 10 Multivocality and "Wikiality": The Epistemology and Ethics of a Pragmatic Archaeology; GUESSES, REASONING, AND PEIRCES FINAL INTERPRETANT; MULTIVOCALITY IN NARRATIVE AND PRACTICE; WIKIALITY AND THE FINAL INTERPRETANT 2.0. - PRINCIPLES OF PRESERVATION. - WIKIS AND MULTIVOCALITY IN ARCHAEOLOGYCONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 11: "Do not do unto others . . .": Cultural Misrecognition and the Harms of Appropriation in an Open-Source World; "DO NOT DO UNTO OTHERS": KINDS AND DEGREES OF HARM; A CONSIDERATION OF FOUR CASES: WHEN APPROPRIATION HARMS AND WHEN IT DOES NOT; When Appropriations Harm; Wanjina-Wunggurr Rock Art; The 2010 Winter Olympics; When Appropriation Does Not Harm; Mata Ortiz Pottery; Tollund Man; HOW CAN HARM BE AVOIDED?; DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 12 Should Ruins Be Preserved?; COMPETING PRIORITIES. - An international and multidisciplinary team addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past.
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