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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is fitting that archaeologists, whose profession played a key role in the establishment of Greece as a client state subservient to the European colonial powers, should today be a vocal majority in this extraordinarily rich critical review of archaeology's political role in Greece and Cyprus over the past two centuries. Contested Antiquity transcends the geographical boundaries of its subject, offering a comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and meticulously argued account that will serve for years to come as a model for the investigation of the impact of ideology and politics on serious scholarship."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Contested Antiquity in Greece and Cyprus
Part I: Between nationalism, colonialism and crypto-colonialism: Historical perspectives and current implications
1. Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece's National "Sites of Trauma"
2. Archaeology and Politics in the Inter-War Period: The Swedish Excavations at Asine
3. Contested Perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and their Claims on their Past
4. Pressed On in Press: Greek Cultural Heritage in the Public Eye: The Post-War Years
Part II: Spatial metaphors and ethnographic observations: heritage, memory and dissonance
5. The Gentrification of Memory: The Past as a Social Event in Thessaloniki of the Early Twenty-first Century
6. The Oracle of Dodona: Contestation over a "Sacred" Archaeological Landscape
7. Archaeological "Protection Zones" and the Limits of the Possible: Archaeological Law, Abandonment and Contested Spaces in Greece
Part III: Competing pasts
8. Heritage as Obstacle: Or Which View to the Acropolis?
9. Eptapyrgio, a Modern Prison inside a World Heritage Monument: Raw Memories in the Margins of Archaeology
10. Contemporary Art and "Difficult Heritage": Three Case Studies from Athens
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