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Archaeology in Situ : Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece

by: Stroulia, A. Sutton, S.B.

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Category: Classical Archaeology
Code: 15947
ISBN-13: 9780739132357 / 978-0-7391-3235-7
ISBN-10: 0739132350 / 0-7391-3235-0
Publisher: Lexington Books
Publication Date: 2010
Publication Place: Lanham
Binding: Paper
Pages: 513
Book Condition: New
Comments: Greek studies / xviii, 513 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. / Archaeological sites and the chasm between past and present / Susan Buck Sutton and Anna Stroulia --On the shoulders of Hera : alternative readings of antiquity in the Greek memoryscape / Amy Papalexandrou

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. Archaeology in Situ will be of particular value to those interested in modern Greek studies, Greek archaeology, Classics, public archaeology, archaeological ethics, anthropology, cultur.

Part 1 Part I. Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Archaeological Sites and the Chasm between Past and Present
Part 3 Part II. Tales of Sites and Communities
Chapter 4 Chapter 2. On the Shoulders of Hera: Alternative Readings of Antiquity in the Greek Memoryscape
Chapter 5 Chapter 3. "Writing down the Country": Travelers and the Emergence of the Archaeological Gaze
Chapter 6 Chapter 4. Herakles Unbound: Stories of Antiquity and Modernity in the Nemea Valley
Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Between the Local and the Global: The Athenian Acropolis as both National and World Monument
Chapter 8 Chapter 6. Producing and Consuming Pictures: Representations of a Landscape
Chapter 9 Chapter 7. Immanent or Eminent Domain? The Contest over Thessaloniki's Rotonda
Chapter 10 Chapter 8. Material Memory and Politics: An Approach to the "Destruction" of the Architectural Past of Thessaloniki in the Twentieth Century
Chapter 11 Chapter 9. The Cyclops, the Sultan, and the Empty Post: Sites and Histories in Turkish(Re)appropriations of the Thracian Past
Chapter 12 Chapter 10. The Making of an Historic Site: An Exercise in Knowledge and Localism
Chapter 13 Chapter 11. Between the Village and the Site: A Conversation on Conflict and Partnership
Chapter 14 Chapter 12. "Between Mud and Poetry:" Archaeology in the Local Market
Chapter 15 Chapter 13. Seeing Voices and Changing Relationships: Film, Archaeological Reporting, and the Landscape of People in Sphakia
Chapter 16 Chapter 14. A Stratigraphy of Meanings: Integrating Antiquities into Daily Life at Paroikia, Paros
Chapter 17 Chapter 15. From Franchthi Cave to Kilada: Reflections on a Long and Winding Road
Part 18 Part III. Commentaries
Chapter 19 Chapter 16. Archaeologies in Situ, Situated Archaeologies
Chapter 20 Chapter 17. There is a Blue Elephant in the Room: From State Institutions to Citizen Indifference
Chapter 21 Chapter 18. Situating Theory: Dynamics of Condescension and Reciprocity in the Material Shadow of the Past
Chapter 22 Chapter 19. Archaeology through the Lens of the Local

 
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Archaeology in Situ : Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece

by: Stroulia, A. Sutton, S.B.

  • ISBN-13: 9780739132357 / 978-0-7391-3235-7
  • ISBN-03: 0739132350 / 0-7391-3235-0
  • Lexington Books, Lanham, 2010

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