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Excavating Zion: Archaeology and Nation-making in Palestine/Israel.
- Source :
- Totem: The University of Western Ontario Anthropology Journal; Jan2013, Vol. 21 Issue 1, preceding p1-14, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- This paper demonstrates that archaeological discourse and practice in Palestine/Israel is intertwined with a nation-making project of settler colonialism that contains both spatial and temporal dimensions. This project primarily serves to invent a link between the ancient Israelite past and the modern Israeli state, presenting colonization as "return" to "the homeland" through familiar narratives of frontier settlement. This article proposes that Israeli archaeological practices not only help to reproduce these narratives, but also participate in the inscription of the national territory as Jewish, and the consequent dispossession of the Palestinians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ARCHAEOLOGY
COLONIZATION
SOCIAL conditions of Palestinians
FRONTIER & pioneer life
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 12038830
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Totem: The University of Western Ontario Anthropology Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 93481822