Trajectories of Development: International Heritage Management of Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa |
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Authors: | Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Main Quad, Building 50, Stanford, CA 94305, USA |
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Abstract: | Archaeology and material heritage are increasingly being used for development projects aimed at producing economic growth and reducing poverty. I am interested in how these projects construct particular ‘developmental’ visions of heritage, orienting and circumscribing relationships both with the past and contemporary social contexts. Here I address these processes as developmental technologies that produce poverty as a ‘local’ affair, in need of intervention, set in contrast to the traveling and translational abilities of international expertise in heritage management and development. I trace the expansion of this expertise across the Middle East and North Africa region, in a variety of contexts where material heritage is mobilized to reduce poverty. Importantly, the question of the economic value of heritage is necessarily placed center-stage in such projects. I argue that as archaeologists we need to engage with the economic value of material heritage, in order to start examining how exactly material heritage works in the world: to what ends and results, in what contexts, who gains to profit, and who suffers. |
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Keywords: | Archaeology and development Poverty Expertise International heritage management Middle East North Africa |
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