Who Needs the Past?: Indigenous Values and Archaeology

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ISBN: 9780415095587 | 0415095581
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Copyright: 9/19/1994

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This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.This book offers a critique of the all pervasive Western notion that other communities often live in a timeless present. Who Needs the Past? provides first-hand evidence of the interest non-Western, non-academic communities have in the past.

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List of contributors Foreword
Preface
Introduction
The Heritage of Eurocentricity
The Western world view in archaeological atlases
Public presentations and private concerns: archaeology in the pages of National Geographic
American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past
Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape
Black people and museums: the Caribbean Heritage Project in Southampton 6
'Volk und Germanentum': the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany
Rulers and Ruled
Maori control of the Maori heritage
Nga Tukemata
Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The awakening: the treasures of Ngati Kahungunu)
God's police and damned whores: images of archaeology in Hawaii
Aborignial perceptions of the past: the implications for cultural resource management in Australia
Search for the missing link: archaeology and the public in Lebanon
The legacy of Eve
Museums: two case studies of reaction to colonialism
Politics and Administration
Cultural education in West Africa: archaeological perspectives
The development of museums in Botswana: dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state
A past abandoned?
Some experiences of a regional museum in Botswana
Archaeology and museum work in the Solomon Islands
Fifty years of conservation experience on Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Chile Archaeology and the People
Didactic presentations of the past: some retrospective considerations in relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, Lodz, Poland
Reconstruction as interpretation: the example of the Jorvik Viking Centre, York
Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, a mid-18th century
British fortification: a case study in research archaeology, reconstruction, and interpretive exhibits
Conservation and information in the display of prehistoric sites
The epic of the Ekpu: ancestor figures of Oron, south-east Nigeria Conclusion: archaeologists and others
Index
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