Archeology as Memory Practice and the Archeologization of Politics

Bjørn Thomassen

Archeology as Memory Practice and the Archeologization of Politics

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Abstract

In recent years the discipline of archeology has increasingly come to realize the political contexts of dealing with the past. This has brought archeology into contact with the neighbouring disciplines of history, anthropology and political science which have a longer disciplinary tradition in dealing with the "politics of memory". Clearly enough, archaeology is itself a kind of memory practice. What does that mean for the discipline?
And in what ways can politics influence archeological work - and vice versa?

Original language	English
Journal	Forum Archaeologiae: Zeitschrift fur klassische Archaologie
Volume	55
Issue number	VI
Number of pages	10
ISSN	1605-4636
Publication status	Published - 5 Mar 2010
Externally published	Yes

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http://homepage.univie.ac.at/elisabeth.trinkl/forum/forum0610/forum55thomassen.pdf

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