(P/B) ARCHAEOLOGY IN SITU

Παρουσίαση

This volume explores the ways local communities perceive, experience, and interact with archaeological sites in Greece, as well as with the archaeologists and government officials who construct and study such places. In so doing, it reveals another side to sites that have been revered as both birthplace of Western civilization and basis of the modern Greek nation. The conceptual terrain of those who live near such sites is complex and furrowed with ambivalence, confusion, and resentment. For many local residents, these sites are gated enclaves, unexplained and off limits, except when workers are needed.
While cleavages between residents and archaeologists have received attention elsewhere, they have been little examined in Greece, where they are often masked by sweeping statements on the glory of antiquity that overlook the extent to which ordinary Greeks have become disconnected from these places in their midst. The complexity of this situation, freighted as it is with two centuries of archaeological practice, is explored in this volume from multiple viewpoints and with respect to sites from prehistoric to Ottoman and beyond. Several chapters trace the origins of the disconnection between archaeological sites and communities, relating it to the ways in which early travelers appropriated sites for their own purposes, the subsequent move of archaeology onto the slippery slope created by the travelers, and the concurrent depiction of Greek peasants as passive and uninformed. Other chapters chronicle the active ways in which communities have contested the development and representation of particular sites and even sometimes created alternative landscapes with other points of entry to the valued Greek past. Still others recount and assess recent archaeological efforts to reconnect residents to the sites in their midst. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

1. Archaeological sites and the chasm between past and present by Susan Buck Sutton and Anna Stroulia
2. On the shoulders of Hear: alternative readings of antiquity in the Greek memoryscape by Amy Papalexandrou
3. "Writing down the country": travelers and the emergence of the archaeological gaze by Leslie G. Kaplan
4. Herakles unbound: stories of antiquity and modernity in the Nemea Valley by Susan Buck Sutton
5. Between the local and the global: the Athenian Acropolis as both national and world monument by Eleana Yalouri
6. Producing and consuming pictures: representations of a landscape by Roxani Caftanzoglou
7. Immanent or eminent domain?: the contest over Thessaloniki's Rotonda by Charles Stewart
8. Material memory and politics: an approach to the "destruction" of the architectural past of Thessaloniki in the twentieth century by Pelagia Astrinidou
9. The cyclops, the sultan, and the empty Post: sites and histories in Turkish (re)appropriations of the Thracian past by Olga Demetriou
10. The making of an historic site: an exercise in knowledge and localism by Eleftheria Deltsou
11. Between the village and the site: a conversation on conflict and partnership by Panayiotis Miaouras and Manthos Bessios and Nancy Krahtopoulou and Anna Stroulia
12. "Between mud and poetry": archaeology in the local market by Anastasia Hourmouziadi and Kosmas Toulomis
13. Seeing voices and changing relationships: film, archaeological reporting, and the landscape of people in Sphakia by Lucia Nixon
14. A stratigraphy of meanings: integrating antiquities into daily life at Paroikia, Paros by Eleni Hasaki
15. From Franchthi Cave to Kilada: reflections on a long and winding road by Dimitris Kamizis and Anna Stroulia and Karen D. Vitelli
16. Archaeologies in situ, situated archaeologies by Yannis Hamilakis