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Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public book cover

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Archaeological Fantasies How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public

Edited By Garrett G. Fagan Copyright 2006
440 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

440 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited volume examines the phenomenon of pseudoarchaeology from a variety of perspectives. The engaging and stimulating essays, written by a diverse group of scholars, scientists and writers, explore issues including: the differences between real and pseudoarchaeology pseudoarchaeology's increasing popularity and how the media, especially TV, has contributed to this the... Read more

Part 1: The Phenomenon.  Introduction: An Epistemology of Archaeology  1. Diagnosing Pseudoarchaeology  2. The Attraction of Non-Rational Archaeological Hypotheses: The Individual and Sociological Factors  3. Sceptics, Fence-Sitters, and True Believers: Student Acceptance of an Improbable Prehistory  4. Memoirs of a True Believer  Part 2: Five Case Studies  5. Esoteric Egypt  6. The Mystique of the Ancient Maya  7. Pseudoarchaeology and Nationalism: Essentializing Difference  8. Archaeology and the Politics of Origins: The Search for Pyramids in Greece  9. Rama’s Realm: Indocentric Rewritings of Early South Asian Archaeology and History  Part 3: Pseudoarchaeology in its Wider Context  10. The Atlantean Box  11. The Colonization of the Past and the Pedagogy of the Future  12. Pseudoscience and Post-Modernism: Antagonists or Fellow-Travellers?  13. Concluding Observations

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Garrett G. Fagan

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