内容説明
The main aim of this stimulating book is to demonstrate the inadequacy of a history that is always written by the winners'. Draws on original studies from Africa, North America, Australia and the Pacific in order to make the point. Emphasizes that archaeology has a crucial role to play in promoting a more balanced, eclectic approach to the past.
目次
- Part 1 The heritage of ethnocentricity: the western world view in archaeological atlases, Chris Scarre
- public presentations and private concerns - archaeology in the pages of "National Geographic", Joan Gero and Dolores Root
- American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past, Michael L.Blakey
- Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape, Robert Paynter
- the W.E.B.DuBois boyhood homesite - a case study in the politics of historical archeology
- black people and museums - the Caribbean heritage project in Southampton, Ronald Belgrave
- "volk und Germanentum" - the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany, W.J. McCann. Part 2 Rulers and ruled: Maori control of the Maori heritage, Stephen O'Regan
- Nga Tukemata - Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The Awakening - The Treasures of Ngati Kahungunu), David J.Butts
- God's police and damned whores - images of archaeology in Hawaii, Matthew Spriggs
- aboriginal perceptions of the past - the implications for cultural resource management in Australia, Howard Creamer
- search for the missing link - archaeology and the public in Lebanon, Helga Seeden
- the legacy of Eve, Stan Jones and Sharon Pay
- museums - two case studies of reaction to colonialism, Frank Willett
- politics and administration - introduction, Peter Gathercole
- cultural education in West Africa - archeological perspectives, Nwanna Nzewunwa
- irreconcilable issues? - culture houses in Zimbabwe, Peter J.Ucko
- the development of museums in Botswana - dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state, Robert Mackenzie
- a past abandoned? - some experiences of a regional museum in Botswana, Sandy Grant
- archaeology and museum work in the Solomon Islands, Lawrence Foanaota
- fifty years of conservation experience on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile, Sergio Rapu. Part 3 Archaeology and the people: didactic presentations of the past - some retrospective considerations in relation to the archaeological and ethnographical museum - Kodz, Poland, Andrzej Mikolajczyk
- reconstruction as interpretation - the example of the Jorvik Viking Centre, Peter V. Addyman
- Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, a mid-18th-century British fortification - a case study in research archaeology, reconstruction and interpretive exhibits, Carl Kuttruff
- conservation and information in the display of prehistoric sites, Nicholas P.Stanley Price
- the epic of the "Ekpu" - ancestor figures of Oron, south-east Nigeria, Keith Nicklin
- archaeologists and others, David Lowenthal.
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