1st Edition

A Future for Archaeology

Edited By Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter Stone Copyright 2006
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely practical and direct way, for example in the disputes about the repatriation... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction, Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter Stone; Chapter 2 Peter Ucko’s ‘Humane Archaeology’, Jack Golson; Chapter 3 Eaglehawk and Crow, Colin Tatz, Jacquie Lambert; Chapter 4 Repositioning Anthropology, 1972–1980, Nicolas Peterson; Chapter 5 Peter Ucko and the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), Michael Day; Chapter 6 Archaeological Overthrows, Neal Ascherson; Chapter 7 ‘All Smoke and Mirrors …’ The World Archaeological Congress, 1986–2004, Peter Stone; Chapter 8 The World Heritage Convention, Henry Cleere; Chapter 9 Public Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century, Tim Schadla-Hall; Chapter 10 Indigenous Human Remains and Changing Museum Ideology, Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert; Chapter 11 ‘The Man Who Would Be Moses’, Beverley Butler, Michael Rowlands; Chapter 12 ‘They Made it A Living Thing Didn’t They …’, Siân Jones; Chapter 13 The Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism, Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, Fiona J.L. Handley, Aubra L. Lee, Emma Morley; Chapter 14 Practising Archaeology in Eastern and Southern Africa, George H. Okello Abungu; Chapter 15 Central European Archaeology at the Crossroads, Arkadiusz Marciniak; Chapter 16 Theoretical and Ethical Issues of Archaeology in South America, Gustavo G. Politis; Chapter 17 The Idea of Prehistory in the Middle East, David Wengrow; Chapter 18 Figurines in Action, Peter F. Biehl; Chapter 19 Objects of the Past, Fekri A. Hassan; Chapter 20 Central European Archaeology at the Crossroads, David Harris;

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Edited by Layton, Robert; Shennan, Stephen; Stone, Peter