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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. The editors have brought together a distinguished international group of scholars. Whilst archaeologists will find that this book raises cogent questions about their own work, these problems also go beyond archaeology to implicate history and anthropology more generally.

Archaeology --- Nationalism --- Archéologie --- Nationalisme --- Philosophy --- Political aspects --- Philosophie --- Aspect politique --- Archaeology and state. --- Political aspects. --- History --- Social Sciences --- Archeology --- Archaeology - Political aspects. --- Nationalism - History - 20th century. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Antiquities --- Public archaeology --- State and archaeology

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"Nature and Antiquities analyzes how the study of indigenous peoples was linked to the study of nature and natural sciences. Leading scholars break new ground and entreat archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing in the study of nature in the history of archaeology"-- "Nature and Antiquities examines the relation between the natural sciences, anthropology, and archaeology in the Americas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the reader across the Americas from the Southern Cone to Canada, across the Andes, the Brazilian Amazon, Mesoamerica, and the United States, the book explores the early history of archaeology from a Pan-American perspective. The volume breaks new ground by entreating archaeologists to acknowledge the importance of ways of knowing that resulted from the study of nature in the history of archaeology. Some of the contributions to this volume trace the part conventions, practices, and concepts from natural history and the natural sciences played in the history and making of the discipline. Others set out to uncover, reassemble, or adjust our vision of collections that research historians of archaeology have disregarded or misrepresented--because their nineteenth-century makers would refuse to comply with today's disciplinary borders and study natural specimens and antiquities in conjunction, under the rubric of the territorial, the curious or the universal. Other contributions trace the sociopolitical implications of studying nature in conjunction with 'indigenous peoples' in the Americas--inquiring into what it meant and entailed to comprehend the inhabitants of the American continent in and through a state of nature"--

Archaeology --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology. --- America --- Indians --- Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge --- Natural history --- Archaeologists --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Historians --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Methodology --- Science and the humanities --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Indian antiquities --- Indian artifacts --- Primitive societies --- history of archaeology --- archaeological theory --- 19th century archaeology --- 20th century archaeology --- indigenous informant --- Social sciences

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Iran --- Civilization --- Civilisation