Cosmopolitan archaeologies
Lynn Meskell, editor.
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- illustrations, charts, figures, tables
- Material worlds .
- Material worlds (Duke University Press) e-Duke books scholarly collection. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-283) and index.
Introduction: cosmopolitan heritage ethics / Lynn Meskell -- Young and free: the Australian past in a global future / Jane lydon -- Strangers and brothers? heritage, human rights, and cosmopolitan archaeology in Oceania / Ian lilley -- Archaeology and the fortress of rationality / Denis byrne -- The nature of culture in Kruger National Park / Lynn Meskell -- Vernacular cosmopolitanism : an archaeological critique of universalistic reason / Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal -- The archaeologist as a world citizen : on the morals of heritage preservation and destruction / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh -- "Time's wheel runs back" : conversations with the Middle Eastern past / Sandra Arnold Scham -- Mavili's voice / Ian Hodder -- "Walking around like they own the place" : quotidian cosmopolitanism at a Maya and World Heritage archaeological site / Lisa Breglia -- Translating Ecuadorian modernities : pre-Hispanic archaeology and the reproduction of global difference / O. Hugo Penavides.
A collection exploring the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice.
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English
9786613065476 1283065479 0822392429
Archaeology--Moral and ethical aspects. Archaeology--Political aspects. Cultural property--Moral and ethical aspects. Archaeologists--Professional ethics.