THE POLITICS OF THE PAST

Libro editedo por Peter Gathercole y David Lowenthal (1994)


Indice

Foreword P.J.Ucko
Preface Peter Gathercole & David Lowenthal
Introduction Peter Gathercole

THE HERITAGE OF EUROCENTRICITY
Introduction
1 The Western world view in archaeological atlases
Chris Scarre
The development of world archaeology
Geographical imbalance
Conclusion
2 Public presentations and private concerns: archaeology in the pages of National Geographic Joan Gero & Dolores Root
The history of National Geographic Magazine
Analysis of archaeology in National Geographic Magazine
Conclusion
3 American nationality and ethnicity in the depicted past
Michael L.Blakey
Man, nation, and nature
Non-white exclusion and segregation in museum presentations
Current trends in museum ethnic presentations
Contrasting stereotypes of Euro-Americans and people of colour
Conclusion
4 Afro-Americans in the Massachusetts historical landscape
Robert Paynter
The Afro-American experience in Massachusetts
Theoretical perspectives
The W.E.B.DuBois Boyhood Homesite
Conclusion
5 Black people and museums: the Caribbean Heritage Project in Southampton
Ronald Belgrave
6 ‘Volk und Germanentum’: the presentation of the past in Nazi Germany
W.J.McCann

RULERS AND RULED
Introduction
7 Maori control of the Maori heritage
Stephen O’Regan
Scholarship and the Maori
Te Maori Exhibition
Conclusion
8 Nga Tukemata: Nga Taonga o Ngati Kahungunu (The awakening: the treasures of Ngati Kahungunu)
David J.Butts
9 God’s police and damned whores: images of archaeology in Hawaii
Matthew Spriggs
10 Aboriginal perceptions of the past: the implications for cultural resource management in Australia
Howard Creamer
Aboriginal culture and the past
Aboriginal involvement in site management
Conclusion
11 Search for the missing link: archaeology and the public in Lebanon
Helga Seeden
The role of the past in a divided nation
Conflicting views of the past: causes and cures
12 The legacy of Eve Sîan Jones & Sharon Pay 160
Gender in museum presentations of the past 161
The construction of knowledge 163
A new construction of archaeological knowledge
Towards a new emphasis in museums
Conclusion
13 Museums: two case studies of reaction to colonialism
Frank Willett
Nigeria
Scotland
Conclusion

POLITICS AND ADMINISTRATION
Introduction
14 Cultural education in West Africa: archaeological perspectives
Nwanna Nzewunwa
Early archaeological research
Colonialism and cultural development
Archaeology and West African culture history
Formal archaeological education
The diffusion of knowledge
Conclusion
15 The development of museums in Botswana: dilemmas and tensions in a front-line state Robert MacKenzie
Museums and cultural policy
The background to present-day museums in Botswana
The present position of museums
Conclusion
16 A past abandoned? Some experiences of a regional museum in Botswana
Sandy Grant
The past disguised
The past revived
The past conserved
Future museum development in Botswana
17 Archaeology and museum work in the Solomon Islands
Lawrence Foanaota
18 Fifty years of conservation experience on Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile
Sergio Rapu
The archaeological heritage
Steps towards conservation
Conclusion
Appendix

ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE PEOPLE
Introduction
19 Didactic presentations of the past: some retrospective considerations in relation to the Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum, Lódz, Poland
Andrzej Mikolajczyk
20 Reconstruction as interpretation: the example of the Jorvik Viking Centre, York
Peter V.Addyman
21 Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, a mid-18th century British fortification: a case study in research archaeology, reconstruction, and interpretive exhibits
Carl Kuttruff
History
Archaeological investigations
Interpretive programme
Motives for reconstruction
22 Conservation and information in the display of prehistoric sites
Nicholas P.Stanley Price
Site conservation and information
Archaeological site values
Restoration, display, and the public
23 The epic of the Ekpu: ancestor figures of Oron, south-east Nigeria
Keith Nicklin
The religious and social significance of the carvings
The collection of the carvings and the building of the Oron Museum
The Civil War
The National Museum, Oron
Conclusion

Conclusion: archaeologists and others
David Lowenthal
The politics of the past: the United States and Britain
The politics of official history: Poland and Greece
The politics of heritage restitution
The politics of minority tradition