Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel Greenberg Raphael
Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel Greenberg Raphael Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and…
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Archaeology, Nation, and Race: Confronting the Past, Decolonizing the Future in Greece and Israel Greenberg Raphael
Archaeology, Nation, and Race is a must-read book for students of archaeology and adjacent fields. Structured as a lucid and lively dialogue between two leading scholars, the volume compares modern Greece and modern Israel - two prototypical and influential cases - where archaeology sits at the very heart of the modern national imagination. It demonstrates how archaeology and concepts of antiquity have shaped, and have been shaped by colonialism, race, and nationalism.
Exchanging views on the foundational myths, moral economies, and racial prejudices in the field of archaeology and beyond, Hamilakis and Greenberg explore topics such as the colonial origins of national archaeologies, the crypto-colonization of the countries and their archaeologies, the role of archaeology as a process of purification, and the racialization and 'whitening' of Greece and Israel and their archaeological and