A Future for Archaeology

by Robert Layton (Editor), Stephen Shennan (Editor), Peter Stone (Editor)

Overview

Over the last thirty years issues of culture, identity and meaning have moved out of the academic sphere to become central to politics and society at all levels from the local to the global. Archaeology has been at the forefront of these moves towards a greater engagement with the non-academic world, often in an extremely practical and direct way, for example in the disputes about the repatriation of human burials. Such disputes have been central to the recognition that previously marginalized groups have rights in their own past that are important for their future. The essays in this book look back at some of the most important events where a role for an archaeology concerned with the past in the present first emerged and look forward to the practical and theoretical issues now central to a socially engaged discipline and shaping its future. This book is published in honor of Professor Peter Ucko, who has played an unparalleled role in promoting awareness of the core issues in this volume among archaeologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598742145
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/09/2006
Series:	UCL Institute of Archaeology Publications
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Edited by Layton, Robert; Shennan, Stephen; Stone, Peter

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Robert Layton, Stephen Shennan, Peter Stone; Chapter 2 Peter Ucko’s ‘Humane Archaeology’, Jack Golson; Chapter 3 Eaglehawk and Crow, Colin Tatz, Jacquie Lambert; Chapter 4 Repositioning Anthropology, 1972–1980, Nicolas Peterson; Chapter 5 Peter Ucko and the World Archaeological Congress (WAC), Michael Day; Chapter 6 Archaeological Overthrows, Neal Ascherson; Chapter 7 ‘All Smoke and Mirrors …’ The World Archaeological Congress, 1986–2004, Peter Stone; Chapter 8 The World Heritage Convention, Henry Cleere; Chapter 9 Public Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century, Tim Schadla-Hall; Chapter 10 Indigenous Human Remains and Changing Museum Ideology, Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert; Chapter 11 ‘The Man Who Would Be Moses’, Beverley Butler, Michael Rowlands; Chapter 12 ‘They Made it A Living Thing Didn’t They …’, Siân Jones; Chapter 13 The Archaeology of Local Myths and Heritage Tourism, Kevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, Fiona J.L. Handley, Aubra L. Lee, Emma Morley; Chapter 14 Practising Archaeology in Eastern and Southern Africa, George H. Okello Abungu; Chapter 15 Central European Archaeology at the Crossroads, Arkadiusz Marciniak; Chapter 16 Theoretical and Ethical Issues of Archaeology in South America, Gustavo G. Politis; Chapter 17 The Idea of Prehistory in the Middle East, David Wengrow; Chapter 18 Figurines in Action, Peter F. Biehl; Chapter 19 Objects of the Past, Fekri A. Hassan; Chapter 20 Central European Archaeology at the Crossroads, David Harris;