Ethics and the Archaeology of Violence

This volume examines the distinctive and highly problematic ethical questions surrounding conflict archaeology. By bringing together sophisticated analyses and pertinent case studies from around the world it aims to address the problems facing archaeologists working in areas of violent conflict, pas...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: González-Ruibal, Alfredo (Editor), Moshenska, Gabriel (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice ; 2
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: the only way is ethics
  • Chapter 2: Ethics in action: a viewpoint from Israel/Palestine
  • Chapter 3: Archaeological ethics and violence in post-genocide Rwanda
  • Chapter 4: All our findings are under their boots! The monologue of violence in Iranian archaeology
  • Chapter 5: Archaeology of historic conflicts, colonial oppression and political violence in Uruguay
  • Chapter 6: “Everything is kept in memory.” Reflections on the memory sites of the dictatorship in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
  • Chapter 7: Archaeology, anthropology and civil conflict. The case of Spain
  • Chapter 8: A gate to a darker world: excavating at the Tempelhof airport (Berlin)
  • Chapter 9: Archaeology, National Socialism and rehabilitation: the case of Herbert Jankuhn (1905-1990)
  • Chapter 10: The ethics of public engagement in the archaeology of modern conflict
  • Chapter 11: Military advocacy of peaceful approaches for cultural property protection
  • Chapter 12: Cognitive dissonance and the military-archaeology complex
  • Chapter 13: Working as a forensic archaeologist and/or anthropologist in post-conflict contexts: a consideration of professional responsibilities to the missing, the dead and their relatives
  • Chapter 14: Virtues impracticable and extremely difficult: The human rights of subsistence diggers.