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Informationen zum Autor Anna Stroulia teaches for the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Indiana. She is the author of Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave. Susan Buck Sutton is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of anthropology at Indiana University. She is editor of Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700. Klappentext This volume explores the ways local communities perceive, experience, and interact with archaeological sites in Greece, as well as with the archaeologists and government officials who construct and study such places. In so doing, it reveals another side to sites that have been revered as both birthplace of Western civilization and basis of the modern Greek nation. The conceptual terrain of those who live near such sites is complex and furrowed with ambivalence, confusion, and resentment. For many local residents, these sites are gated enclaves, unexplained and off limits, except when workers are needed.While cleavages between residents and archaeologists have received attention elsewhere, they have been little examined in Greece, where they are often masked by sweeping statements on the glory of antiquity that overlook the extent to which ordinary Greeks have become disconnected from these places in their midst. The complexity of this situation, freighted as it is with two centuries of archaeological practice, is explored in this volume from multiple viewpoints and with respect to sites from prehistoric to Ottoman and beyond. Several chapters trace the origins of the disconnection between archaeological sites and communities, relating it to the ways in which early travelers appropriated sites for their own purposes, the subsequent move of archaeology onto the slippery slope created by the travelers, and the concurrent depiction of Greek peasants as passive and uninformed. Other chapters chronicle the active ways in which communities have contested the development and representation of particular sites and even sometimes created alternative landscapes with other points of entry to the valued Greek past. Still others recount and assess recent archaeological efforts to reconnect residents to the sites in their midst. Archaeology in Situ will be of particular value to those interested in modern Greek studies, Greek archaeology, Classics, public archaeology, archaeological ethics, anthropology, cultur Zusammenfassung This volume explores the ways local communities perceive! experience! and interact with archaeological sites in Greece! as well as the archaeologists and government officials who construct and study such places. In so doing! it reveals another! much more troubled! side to sites that have been revered as both birthplace of Western civilization and basis of the modern Greek nation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Part I. Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Archaeological Sites and the Chasm between Past and Present Part 3 Part II. Tales of Sites and Communities Chapter 4 Chapter 2. On the Shoulders of Hera: Alternative Readings of Antiquity in the Greek Memoryscape Chapter 5 Chapter 3. "Writing down the Country": Travelers and the Emergence of the Archaeological Gaze Chapter 6 Chapter 4. Herakles Unbound: Stories of Antiquity and Modernity in the Nemea Valley Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Between the Local and the Global: The Athenian Acropolis as both National and World Monument Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Producing and Consuming Pictures: Representations of a Landscape Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Immanent or Eminent Domain? The Contest over Thessaloniki's Rotonda Chapter 10 Chapter 8. Material Memory and Politics: An Approach to the "Destruction" of the Architectural Past of Thessaloniki in the Twentieth Century Chapter 11 Chapter 9. The Cyclops, the Sultan, and the Empty Post: Sites and Histories in Turkish(Re)appropriations of th...
