1. Repatriation, Doxa, and Contested Heritages
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Gertjan Plets, Nikita Konstantinov, Erick Robinson, Vasilii I. Soenov, and Balzer, Marjorie
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Archeology ,History ,Anthropology ,Culture ,Critical Heritage Studies ,Ethnic group ,Social Sciences ,Identity (social science) ,Heritage ,Russia ,Theoretical Archaeology ,Russian Federation ,Identity ,Ethnicity ,Habitus ,Nationalism ,Altai Republic ,Perspective (graphical) ,Indigenous rights ,Siberia ,Doxa ,Indigenous Rights ,Repatriation ,Pierre Bourdieu - Abstract
Using Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus and doxa, the authors analyze the contested heritage debates surrounding the sensational Scythian burial discovery of the Altai Princess, also called the Ice Maiden, on the Ukok plateau. Her 2012 repatriation to a special Gazprom-funded museum in the Altai Republic of Russia is politically contextualized and compared to cases of the Kennewick Man in the United States and the Lake Mungo Burials of Australia. The authors stress the importance of "heritage in the making" and conclude that diverse approaches to the Altai Princess must be understood through the historically constituted dispositions of various agents and their interaction with the structures governing society.
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- 2013
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