Challenging the Dichotomy - The Licit and the Illicit in Archaeological and Heritage Discourses

Informationen zum Autor Les Field is a professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico, where he is the chair of the Department of Anthropology. Cristóbal Gnecco is a professor of anthropology at the Universidad del Cauca in Colombia. He is the editor of many books, including Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology in Latin America. Joe Watkins is the supervisory anthropologist and chief of the Tribal Relations and American Cultures Program for the National Park Service. Previously, he was the director of the Native American Studies Program and an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Klappentext Explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discourse of ethics, practices, and institutions. Examining issues of cultural heritage law, policy, and implementation, the editors guide the focus to important discussions of the binary oppositions of the licit and the illicit, the scientific and the unscientific, incorporating case studies that challenge those apparent contradictions.

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• Authors: Les (EDT)/ Watkins Field
• Assisted by: Les Field (Editor), Cristobal Gnecco (Editor), Cristobal. Gnecco (Editor), Joe Watkins (Editor), Joe. Watkins (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780816531301
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-3130-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous