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Informationen zum Autor Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt, and Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Etcetera in Ancient Egypt. She is editor of Archaeologies of Materiality, Embedding Ethics (with Peter Pels), and The Companion to Social Archaeology (with Bob Preucel). Meskell is the founder and editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology. Klappentext Collection of essays that consider archaeology as a global project that must attend to the cultural, political, and historical specificity of archaeological sites, while also taking into account transnational questions of human rights and heritage preserv Zusammenfassung A collection exploring the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Cosmopolitan Heritage Ethics / Lynn Meskell 1 1. Young and Free: The Australian Past in a Global Future / Jane Lydon 28 2. Strangers and Brothers? Heritage, Human Rights, and Cosmopolitan Archaeology in Oceania / Ian Lilley 48 3. Archaeology and the Fortress of Rationality / Denis Byrne 68 4. the Nature of Culture in Kruger National Park / Lynn Meskell 89 5. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: An Archaeological Critique of Universalistic Reason / Alfredo González-Ruibal 113 6. The Archaeologist as a World Citizen: On the Morals of Heritage Preservation and Destruction / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh 140 7. "Time's Wheel Runs Back": Conversations the the Middle Eastern Past / Sandra Arnold Scham 166 8. Mavili's Voice / Ian Hodder 184 9. "Walking Around Like They Own the Place": Quotidian Cosmopolitanism at a Maya and World Heritage Archaeological Site / Lisa Breglia 205 10. Translating Ecuadorian Modernities: Pre-Hispanic Archaeology and the Reproduction of Global Difference / O. Hugo Benavides 228 Bibliography 249 Contributors 285 Index 289...
