Introduction: Cosmopolitan Heritage Ethics / Lynn Meskell 1
1. Young and Free: The Australian Past in a Global Future / Jane
Lydon 28
2. Strangers and Brothers? Heritage, Human Rights, and Cosmopolitan
Archaeology in Oceania / Ian Lilley 48
3. Archaeology and the Fortress of Rationality / Denis Byrne 68
4. the Nature of Culture in Kruger National Park / Lynn Meskell
89
5. Vernacular Cosmopolitanism: An Archaeological Critique of
Universalistic Reason / Alfredo GonzÁlez-Ruibal 113
6. The Archaeologist as a World Citizen: On the Morals of Heritage
Preservation and Destruction / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh 140
7. "Time's Wheel Runs Back": Conversations the the Middle Eastern
Past / Sandra Arnold Scham 166
8. Mavili's Voice / Ian Hodder 184
9. "Walking Around Like They Own the Place": Quotidian
Cosmopolitanism at a Maya and World Heritage Archaeological Site /
Lisa Breglia 205
10. Translating Ecuadorian Modernities: Pre-Hispanic Archaeology
and the Reproduction of Global Difference / O. Hugo Benavides
228
Bibliography 249
Contributors 285
Index 289
A collection exploring the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice
Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. She is the author of Object Worlds in Ancient Egypt: Material Biographies Past and Present, Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt, and Archaeologies of Social Life: Age, Sex, Class Etcetera in Ancient Egypt. She is editor of Archaeologies of Materiality, Embedding Ethics (with Peter Pels), and The Companion to Social Archaeology (with Bob Preucel). Meskell is the founder and editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology.
"Cosmopolitan Archaeologies challenges cherished assumptions about the practice of archaeology and the shaping and implications of interpretation. Drawing on recent work in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the authors show how the past is understood in the present and how dispensations of power generate ethics of practice. Through closely argued exemplars, they show how broad interpretations are shaped in the cauldron of the local, and how the global must be understood from within the framework of diverse communities. The result is a book that serves as a signpost for the frontline of archaeological interpretation for the coming decade."--Martin Hall, University of Salford "Approaches to the ownership of archaeological remains range from smug neocolonial assertions of entitlement to bitter recriminations against even well-intentioned scholars for their alleged (and often real) elision of contemporary local societies. In this unedifying rogues' gallery, a small but growing group of thoughtful exceptions stands out. Actively representative of the new and critically important trend, the authors of this highly original collection deploy a nuanced understanding of cosmopolitanism to challenge the old, easy assumptions and to suggest alternative, politically sensitized, and morally generous understandings. Theirs is an urgent call to accept the challenge of complexity, especially where cultural ethics are concerned. It is also a deeply serious call to rethink the place, indeed the value, of archaeology in a world where bigotry and violence still threaten the very future of humankind."--Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome
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