ÉPUISÉ. VOIR VERSION BROCHÉE DISPONIBLE 21859 - Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology, 1996, 341 p., 4 cartes, rel. -

Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and academic prehistory in the former soviet union, to lesser-known instances of ideological archaeology in other European countries, in China, Japan, Korea and the Near East. The introductory and concluding chapters draw out some of the common threads in these experiences, and argue that archaeologists need to be more sophisticated about the use and abuse of their studies.