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Archaeology Under Fire: Nationalism, Politics and Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East
Author(s): Lynn Meskell
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: November 12, 1998
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 262 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415196558
- ISBN-13: 9780415196550
Book Description
Archaeology Under Fire addresses archaeology's role in current political issues, whether it be the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, the division of Cyprus, or the continued destruction of Beirut.
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"The volume is a good example of the new kinds of studies now being conducted with archaeological information. Upper-division undergraduates and above."
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About the Author
Lynn Meskell is Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. She has undertaken fieldwork in Egypt, Cyprus and Greece. Her research interests include Egyptian and Mediterranean archaeologies, the application of feminist theory and sociopolitics to archaeology and she has written extensively on these subjects.
