...John Boardman Randall H. McGuire, Archaeology as Political Action (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 294 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and America’s Culture...

...John Boardman Marina Belozerskaya, To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology (New York: Norton, 2009), 308 pp. Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Steve Pincus, 1688: The First Modern Revolution (New Haven, CT: Yale...

...Wolfgang G. Schwanitz Gossman Lionel , The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler ( Cambridge : Open Book , 2013 ), 416 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...John Boardman Scarre Geoffrey and Coningham Robin , eds., Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 353 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...John Boardman Hall J. M. , Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2014 ), 258 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...John Boardman Mairs Rachel , The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language, and Identity in Greek Central Asia . ( Oakland : University of California Press , 2014 ), 256 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

.... For the rest, they are harmless enough, but there is rather more of wheel spinning than there is of traction. —Clifford Geertz Little Reviews Joseph Alexander MacGillivray, Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology...

...John Boardman Yannis Hamilakis, The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 352 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren...

...John Boardman Roelstraete Dieter , ed., The Way of the Shovel: On the Archaeological Imaginary in Art . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 ), 328 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

..., Albera undertakes an archaeology of the intellectual tools that produced the unstable antinomy of the terms xenophilia and xenophobia . Despite the appearance of antiquity conferred by the Greek roots of both terms, they are the product of a fairly recent and quintessentially modern dynamic...

... “an intellectual slogan or shibboleth” and that “there is a price to pay” for its “more and more frequent use . . . in a number of disciplines—among them, anthropology, archaeology, art history, geography, intellectual history, law, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, politics, psychology, sociology...

.... The reviewer argues that Crone's sense of an unruly proliferation of popular beliefs is confirmed by the latest archaeology, and then he closes with an extended meditation on the relevance of this early Arab-Persian divide to the contemporary political situation of Islam and the Middle East. Crone...

...Siniša Malešević Given the paucity of evidence available, scholarship in archaeology and the social sciences is deeply divided over the question, how old is human violence? Some scholars have concluded that humans are intrinsically violent, and others that they are basically nonviolent, but in both...

... of the term that focused on the use of DNA, archaeology, and anthropology to study the lives of seven women who are the ancestors of almost every European today, as “imagined” by the geneticist Bryan Sykes in his book The Seven Daughters of Eve . These women lived between forty-five hundred and ten thousand...

... to the ivory towers in which intellectuals are sometimes said to hide. Cultivated civilians ought to know that cultures strive to erase one another in ways vile but unsurprising. Those who learn history expect atrocity and should busy themselves less with assignment of blame than with archaeology...

... that questions raises past, peopleabout their contemporary of views the preservedand be problems ofownership like “Shouldruins ies. stud historical in of instruction major notpart, the though a part, form should archaeology responsibility, formidable this Given past. human ofthe...

... The Archaeological Asia. Central with busy very being from historians and archaeologists have travel notstopped of difficulties War the and (Oakland: University of California Press, 2014),256pp. Archaeology, Language, andIdentityinGreek Central Asia Rachel Mairs, doi 10.1215/0961754X-3692504...

... and In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement. John Boardman, Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology Emeritus at Oxford University, is editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art and author of, most recently, The Archaeology...

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.... —  responsibilities. broadestsense issenior the of academicall sodisciplines, itmust be awareof its the in archaeology that Itarguable threatened. is easily is scholarly is, integrity itwhere and ideological; all atnot probably and limited strictly but important is large at public...