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What has been achieved—or can realistically be achieved—by calls for the decolonization of archaeology? In the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean, as elsewhere, discourse about the past is often closely entangled with concerns of the present, and the idea of decolonizing archaeological practice in this war–torn region has particular relevanc...
Q. Edward Wang’s unparalleled four-volume survey of historiography examines the nature and significance of history writing from ancient worlds to the present day. Taking a global approach, it presents and contextualizes classic works that portray the traditions of historical writing around the world. The collection also incorporates key essays and...
Economists, political scientists, and journalists around the world have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will have long-term effects on twenty-first-century global society. As a precipitating factor in the final collapse of the post-1945 world order, the pandemic has been seen as an epochal turning point in human history. This article will exam...
Obra de referência sobre Teoria da História, com a contribuição de nomes como Carlo Ginzburg, Joan W. Scott, Neil Silberman.
On the face of it, no quest could be nobler: to enrich and highlight the ‘outstanding universal value’ of World Heritage sites (Cleere 1996) with what the United Nations (UN) has recognised from its founding as the outstanding universal value of human rights (Schwelb 1964). In recent years, political scientists, legal scholars and social philosophe...
Special Issue in honor to Professor Pedro Paulo Funari
Homenagem a Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari
The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social contexts, with even the basic definition of what constitutes cultural heritage being wid...
A single, clear definition of “heritage place” has proved elusive – both to those who seek to widen and generalize the term to include all types, dates, and scales of localities worth protecting, and to those who seek to narrow it to historical, religious, or aesthetic criteria. This chapter traces the evolving social function of landmarks and plac...
Peer comment on: Crime, Controversy and the Comments Section: Discussing archaeological looting, trafficking, and the illicit antiquities trade online by Meg Lambert and Donna Yates
The global digital environment and the continuous expansion of digital information about cultural property necessitate a reevaluation of John Henry Merryman’s tripartite typology of cultural property ideals. Merryman put forth those ideals, namely 1.) ensuring the physical preservation of cultural property, 2.) protecting its even-handed interpreta...
The author of this paper questions the role of the experts in heritage policies and practices. Is the voice of the heritage expert now guided by the vox populi ? The current evidence for these trends, long considered anathema to heritage purists, suggests that an epoch-making change in heritage practice is now underway. The announcement of a Memora...
Narrative is the heart of heritage interpretation, and modern Middle Eastern narratives of national histories tell distinct and conflicting tales. This paper highlights some major genres of archaeological and historical storytelling and analyzes the symbolic messages they convey. A closer look at the juxtaposition of competing story forms reveals a...
Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframe our understanding and experience of heritage by opening up more participatory ways of interacting around heritage objects and concerns. Through the idea of participatory culture the book begins to explore how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage artifacts and...
This article highlights the central role of public interpretation in helping to integrate human rights concerns in the evaluation and management of World Heritage sites. Beginning with a brief survey of the relationship of cultural heritage to human rights in the United Nations (UN) system, it will then analyse the evolving concepts of culture in U...
The Fourth Annual Ename International Colloquium, entitled “Between Objects and Ideas: Rethinking the Role of Intangible Heritage,” was held in Ghent, Belgium, March 26–28, 2008. Focusing on the intellectual and practical relationship between tangible and intangible heritage and its implications for the shaping of international heritage policy, it...
You don’t have to read Neil Postman’s scathing jeremiad Amusing Ourselves to Death (1986) to know that we live in an age of flashing, shallow, and ideologicallyloaded TV images. As the virtual pieces of a fluid, postmodern mosaic, they embody and articulate a breathless public narrative of change, conquest, and consumption that often controls and r...
This article deals with the momentous events that took place in Judah in the short period of time between 732 (and mainly 722) and 701 BCE. A torrent of refugees from the North, mostly from the areas bordering on Judah, dramatically changed the demographic structure in the Southern Kingdom. The population seems to have at least doubled and included...
Aquest article examina l’ús de les TIC en la presentació i la interpretació del conjunts de patrimoni cultural. Descriu les iniciatives actuals de desenvolupament d’aplicacions digitals per al registre i l’anàlisi de dades, la visualització i la interpretació pública. Suggereix que les TIC aplicades al patrimoni cultural han de continuar endavant a...
This paper presents the results of the implementation of prototype culture heritage presentation systems in a village, a small town and a region. These systems focus on cost efficiency, sustainability, local identity and integration in tourism, and are based on an innovative approach of interactive storytelling. This approach facilitates effective...
This paper discusses the rationale for—and describes the methodology of—a new system of interactive storytelling being developed by the Ename Centre for Public Archaeology Heritage Presentation in Belgium. Based on 5 years' experience with multimedia heritage presentation systems, both on‐site and in museum contexts, this approach to the presentati...
Virtual Reality and multimedia technologies are central components of the heritage presentation programme at Ename, Belgium. These techniques are designed to help the visitor understand and experience the past as it has been revealed through archaeological and historical research. This paper briefly traces the development of multimedia and Virtual...
The pace and agenda of archaeology in Jerusalem has always been influenced by unspoken ideological and political factors. This article attempts to trace the ideological and political contexts in which archaeological exploration and interpretation has been carried out during the last 200 years. Beginning with a brief description of the Solomonic obs...
Virtual Reality and multimedia technologies are central components of the heritage presentation programme at Ename, Belgium. These techniques are designed to help the visitor understand and experience the past as it has been revealed through archaeological and historical research. This paper briefly traces the development of multimedia and Virtual...
The article deals with the relationship between archaeology and the biblical account of the history of Israel from the viewpoint of recent archaeological research. It takes the middle road between those scholars who accept much of the biblical text as reliable historical testimony and those who date the texts to the Persian or Hellenistic periods a...
Virtual reality (VR) and multimedia are central components of the
heritage presentation programme at Ename, Belgium. These techniques are
designed to help the visitor understand and experience the past as
revealed through archaeological and historical research. The programme
uses different VR approaches to bring to life archaeological remains,
stan...
In this elegant and wide-ranging essay, Hamilakis and Yalouri have offered us a sophisticated analysis of the utilisation of the ancient past in modern Greece. They have traced the powerful political connection between images of the past and contemporary political structures. They have described how different modalities of veneration have been cons...
This paper describes the changing commemoration, political meaning and archaeological presentation of Masada and the Little Bighorn National Battlefield in an attempt to understand the role that each has played in the crystallization of national consciousness. In examining official efforts to preserve the site of ‘Custer's Last Stand’ – from its es...
Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and academic prehistory in the former Soviet Union, to lesser-known instances of ideological archaeology...
How were key aspects of Albright's archaeological project rooted in his experience of 1920s Palestine? Does Albright's claim of scholarly detachment from the political, religious, and economic turmoil of his first decade in Jerusalem hold up? The continuing power of Albright's scholarly legacy brings into view the social function of archaeologists...
When archaeologists began exploring the Middle East in search of tangible evidence supporting the biblical story in the nineteenth century, many were shocked at the degraded modern civilization in the region. They became convinced that the contemporary state of affairs in the Holy Land was a literal fulfillment of prophecies of Isaiah, Ezekiel and...
Our legacy, our patrimony, and our professional responsibility as cultural heritage technologists, lie not only in gigabytes and pixels - but also in the dramatically evolving social signifi cance of heritage itself. In the interactive touch screens of national museums and local visitor centres, in the interpretive applications at archaeological si...
Traducción de: The Bible Unearthed. Archeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel
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