The Politics of the Past

This stimulating collection demonstrates the inadequacy of a history that is always written by the "winners." Drawing on original studies from Africa, North America, Australia and the Pacific in order to make its points,The Politics of the Pastemphasizes that archaeology has a crucial role to play in promoting a more balanced, eclectic approach to the past. The essays in the book are organized around four themes: the forms and consequences of the Eurocentric heritage, the conflicting perspectives of rulers and ruled, the significance of administrative and institutional rivalries, and the divide between professional and popular views of archaeology. This illuminating book aims to enrich historical and archaeological inquiry and interpretation,

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xxvii
Introduction	p. 1
Reference	p. 4
The Heritage of Eurocentricity	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
The Western World View in Archaeological Atlases	p. 11
Note	p. 18
Public Presentations and Private Concerns: Archaeology in the Pages of National Geographic	p. 19
American Nationality and Ethnicity in the Depicted Past	p. 38
Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts Historical Landscape	p. 49
Black People and Museums: the Caribbean Heritage Project in Southampton	p. 63
'Volk Und Germanentum': the Presentation of the Past in Nazi Germany	p. 74
Rulers and Ruled	p. 89
Introduction	p. 91
Maori Control of the Maori Heritage	p. 95
Nga Tukemata: Nga Taonga O Ngati Kahungunu (the Awakening: the Treasures of Ngati Kahungunu)	p. 107
References	p. 117
God's Police and Damned Whores: Images of Archaeology in Hawaii	p. 118
Aboriginal Perceptions of the Past: the Implications for Cultural Resource Management in Australia	p. 130
Notes	p. 139
Search for the Missing Link: Archaeology and the Public in Lebanon	p. 141
The Legacy of Eve	p. 160
Museums: Two Case Studies of Reaction to Colonialism	p. 172
Politics and Administration	p. 185
Introduction	p. 187
Cultural Education in West Africa: Archaeological Perspectives	p. 189
The Development of Museums in Botswana: Dilemmas and Tensions in a Front-Line State	p. 203
References	p. 212
A Past Abandoned? Some Experiences of a Regional Museum in Botswana	p. 214
Archaeology and Museum Work in the Solomon Islands	p. 224
References	p. 231
Fifty Years of Conservation Experience on Easter Island (rapa Nui), Chile	p. 233
Archaeology and the People	p. 243
Introduction	p. 245
Didactic Presentations of the Past: Some Retrospective Considerations in Relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, &Lslash;ódź, Poland	p. 247
References	p. 256
Reconstruction as Interpretation: the Example of the Jorvik Viking Centre, York	p. 257
Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, a Mid-18th Century British Fortification: a Case Study in Research Archaeology, Reconstruction, and Interpretive Exhibits	p. 265
References	p. 280
Conservation and Information in the Display of Prehistoric Sites	p. 284
The Epic of the Ekpu: Ancestor Figures of Own, South-East Nigeria	p. 291
Conclusion: Archaeologists and Others	p. 302
Index	p. 315
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