Occupying the Past: Colonial Rule and Archaeological Practice in Israel/Palestine |
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Authors: | Maria Theresia Starzmann |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, Canada
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Abstract: | Scholars working on issues of cultural heritage politics have repeatedly argued that archaeological sites in Israel/Palestine serve as grounds for the creation of a nation-state narrative that erases other histories. Expanding on this view, my paper first explores a set of spatio-political strategies that Israeli settlers use to carve out a national space within a larger colonial landscape. Second, as I trace those strategies into the realm of archaeological work, it is my goal to highlight how practices of heritage management and colonial rule in Israel/Palestine are co-constitutive. In this context, I also consider how the occupation, confiscation, and demolition of archaeological sites take place before the background of a modernist discourse that references a universal or global heritage. |
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