Title:	Facts on the Ground
Authors:	Abu EI-Haj., Nadia
Keywords:	Ethnoarchaeology-Israel
Issue Date:	2001
Publisher:	The University of Chicago
Description:	This book is, in part, a study of that phenomenon. It analyzes the significance of archaeology to the Israeli state and society and the role it played in the formation and enactment of its colonial-national historical imagination and in the substantiation of its territorial claims.2 I focus on selected archaeological projects that shaped the spatial foundations and ideological contours of settler nationhood, from the 1880s through the 1950s, and that facilitated its territorial extension, appropriation, and gradual reconfiguration following the 1967 war. Those same research projects were, simultaneously, of primary importance to the work of discipline building, to crystallizing archaeology's paradigms of argumentation and practice, and to demarcating and sustaining its central research agendas. In contrast to the few studies on the topic to date, I do not approach the significance of archaeology solely with reference to the question of nation-building.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51692
ISBN:	0-226-00195-4
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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