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Title Contested Antiquity : Archaeological Heritage and Social Conflict in Modern Greece and Cyprus / edited by Esther Solomon
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages)
Series New Anthropologies of Europe
New anthropologies of Europe.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contested Antiquity in Greece and Cyprus -- Part I: Between Nationalism, Colonialism, and Crypto-Colonialism: Historical Perspectives and Current Implications -- 1. Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece's National "Sites of Trauma" -- 2. Archaeology and Politics in the Interwar Period: The Swedish Excavations at Asine / Niki Sakka -- 3. Contested Perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and Their Claims on Their Past / Alexandra Bounia
4. Pressed On in Press: Greek Cultural Heritage in the Public Eye: The Post-War Years / Marlen Mouliou -- Part II: Spatial Metaphors and Ethnographic Observations: Heritage, Memory, and Dissonance -- 5. The Gentrification of Memory: The Past as a Social Event in Thessaloniki of the Early Twenty-First Century / Styliana Galiniki -- 6. The Oracle of Dodona: Contestation over a "Sacred" Archaeological Landscape / Katerina Konstantinou -- 7. Archaeological "Protection Zones" and the Limits of the Possible: Archaeological Law, Abandonment, and Contested Spaces in Greece / Aris Anagnostopoulos
Part III: Competing Pasts -- 8. Heritage as Obstacle: Or Which View to the Acropolis? / Andromache Gazi -- 9. Eptapyrgio, a Modern Prison inside a World Heritage Monument: Raw Memories in the Margins of Archaeology / Eleni Stefanou and Ioanna Antoniadou -- 10. Contemporary Art and "Difficult Heritage": Three Case Studies from Athens / Eleana Yalouri and Elpida Rikou -- Dedication -- Index
Summary How should visitors be introduced to an ancient Byzantine fortification that still holds the grim reminders of the cruel prison it was used as until the 1980s? How can foreign archaeological institutes engage with another nation's heritage in a meaningful way? What role do locals have in determining what is sacred, and can this sense of the sacred extend beyond buildings to the surrounding land? Together, the essays featured in Contested Antiquity offer fresh insights into the ways ancient heritage is negotiated for modern times
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2021)
Subject Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Greece
Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cyprus
Social conflict -- Greece
Social conflict -- Cyprus
HISTORY -- Europe -- Greece.
Antiquities
Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects
Social conflict
SUBJECT Greece -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057037
Cyprus -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035187
Subject Cyprus
Greece
Form Electronic book
Author Solomon, Esther, editor
Anagnostopoulos, Aris
Bounia, Alexandra
Nikolaou, Paulina
Stylianou-Lambert, Theopisti
Galinki, Styliana
Gazi, Andromache
Konstantinou, Katerina
Mouliou, Marlen
Plantzos, Dimitris
ISBN 9780253055989
0253055989