Publication

2001 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Identifiers

and 9 more
  • ISBN-139780226001951
  • Goodreads93577
  • LibraryThing44493
  • WikidataQ120537755
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001004432
  • OCLC Control Number47666593
  • Better World Books9780226001951
  • Better World Books9780226001944
  • Open LibraryOL17037351M

Classifications

  • LCCDS111.1 .A28 2001
  • LCCDS111.1.A28 2001

Description

"Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity--and national rights--have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies ... the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Facts on the ground: archaeological practice and territorial self-fashioning in Israeli societyUniversity of Chicago Press2001-01-01

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