Week 1. (January 28) Introduction
Thursday Introduction: review of the course.
Week 2. (February 2-4) Keywords for this course: archaeology, identity, politics, heritage (and others).
- Meskell, Lynn and Robert W. Preucel; 2004. “Politics,” in A companion to social archaeology. L. Meskell and R. W. Preucel (eds.). Malden: Blackwell, 315-334.
- Bernbeck, Reinhard and Susan Pollock; 2004. “The political economy of archaeological practice and the production of heritage in the Middle East,” in A companion to social archaeology. L. Meskell and R. W. Preucel (eds.). Malden: Blackwell, 335-352.
- Steele, Caroline; 2005. “Who has not eaten cherries with the devil? Archaeology under challenge,” in Archaeologies of the Middle East. S.Pollock and R. Bernbeck (eds.). Malden: Blackwell, 45-65.
- Tilley, Christopher; 1990. “Archaeology as socio-political action in the present,” in Critical traditions in contemporary archaeology: Essays in the Philosophy, History and Socio-Politics of Archaeology. Valerie Pinsky and Alison Wylie (eds.). New York: Cambridge University Press, 104-116.
Week 3. (February 9-11) Collecting, museums and orientalism in the Late Ottoman Empire: a view from the 19th century
- Mitchell, Timothy; 2004. “Orientalism and the exhibitionary order,” in Grasping the world: the idea of the museum. Donald Preziosi and Claire Farago (eds.). Burlington VT: Ashgate, 442-461.
- Diaz-Andreu, Margarita; “Informal imperialism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire: the consolidation of the mythical roots of the West,” in A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 99-130.
- Shaw, Wendy; 2003. “The rise of the imperial museum,” in Possessors and possessed: museums, archaeology and the visualization of history in the Late Ottoman Empire. Berkeley: University of California Press, 83-107.
- Makdisi, Ussama; 2002. “Ottoman Orientalism,” The American Historical Review, 107: 768-796.
Week 4. (February 16-18) Origins of nationalism and archaeology as an invention of modernity.
- Anderson, Benedict; 1983. Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism. London: Verso, 1-46; 163-186.
- Habermas, Jürgen; 1998. “Modernity – an incomplete project,” in The anti-aesthetic: essays on postmodern culture. H. Foster (ed.). New York: New Press, 1-15.
- Schnapp, Alain; 1997. “The invention of archaeology,” in Discovery of the past. New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Pub., 275-315.
February 20-23 Long-weekend
Week 5. (February 25) Turkey: were Hittites Turks? The making of a new national past in Anatolia.
No class on Tuesday (Long weekend)
- Goode, James F.; 2007. “End of the world order” and “Heirs of the Hittites,” in Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941. Austin University of Texas Press, 19-30 and 43-66.
- Özdoğan, Mehmet; 1998. “Ideology and archaeology in Turkey,” in Archaeology under fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. L. Meskell (ed.), Routledge: London and New York, 111-123.
- Shaw, Wendy; 2007. “The rise of the Hittite Sun: a deconstruction of Western civilization from the margin,” in Selective remembrances: archaeology in the construction, commemoration and sonsecration of national pasts. Philip L. Kohl, Mara Kozelsky, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda (eds.). The Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 163-188.
optional:
- Erimtan, Can; 2008. “Hittites, Ottomans and Turks: Ağaoğlu Ahmed Bey and the Kemalist construction of Turkish nationhood in Anatolia,” Anatolian Studies 58: 141-171.
Week 6. (March 2-4) Egypt’s conflicted antiquities: modernity, identity and archaeology
- Colla, Elliott; 2007. Conflicted Antiquities: Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity. Duke University Press. Selected chapters:
- "Introduction: the Egyptian Sculpture Room" 1-23.
- “Pharaonic selves” 121-165
- Goode, James F.; 2007. “Egypt awakening,” in Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941. Austin University of Texas Press, 67-97.
Week 7. (March 9-11) Israel’s nationhood: Archaeology as “national hobby”
- Abu El Haj, Nadia; 2001. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-fashioning in Israeli Society. University of Chicago Press, 1-99.
Midterm take-home exam: distributed March 12- due March 15.
Week 8. (March 16-18) Iraq: colonizing Mesopotamia
- Bahrani, Zainab; 1998. “Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past,” in Archaeology under fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. L. Meskell (ed.), Routledge: London and New York, 159-174.
- Goode, James F.; 2007. “Archaeology as usual,” and “The reign of Sati’ al-Husri,” in Negotiating for the Past: Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941. Austin University of Texas Press, 185-221.
- Bernhardsson, Magnus T.; 2005. Reclaiming a plundered past: archaeology and nation building in Modern Iraq. Austin: University of Texas Press. Pages TBA.
Week 9. (March 23-25) Archaeology, colonialism, modernity, and heritage in the Middle East: a mid-semester review
- Loomba, Ania; 1998. Colonialism/postcolonialism. London: Routledge. Pages TBA
- Kohl, Philip L.; 1998. “Nationalism and archaeology: on the constructions of nations and the reconstructions of the remote past,” Annual Review of Anthropology 27: 223-246.
- Gosden, Chris; 2004. “The past and foreign countries: colonial and post-colonial archaeology and anthropology,” in A companion to social archaeology. Lynn Meskell and Robert W. Preucel (eds.). Malden MA: Blackwell, 161-178
- Kersel, Morag; 2010. "The Changing Legal Landscape for Middle Eastern Archaeology in the Colonial Era, 1800-1930." In Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-1920. Geoff Emberling (ed.) Chicago: The Oriental Institute Museum Publications, 85-90.
March 27-April 4 Spring break
Week 10. (April 6-8) Iraq: Saddam Hussein, Nebuchadnezzar II and Babylon
- Abdi, Kamyar; 2008. ”From Pan-Arabism to Saddam Hussein's cult of personality: Ancient Mesopotamia and Iraqi national ideology” Journal of Social Archaeology 8: 3-36.
- Bernhardsson, Magnus T.; 2007. “The politics of archaeology in Modern Iraq,” in Selective remembrances: archaeology in the construction, commemoration and sonsecration of national pasts. Philip L. Kohl, Mara Kozelsky, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda (eds.). The Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 189-205.
- Makiya, Kanan; 2004. The monument: art and vulgarity in Saddam Hussain’s Iraq.London: I.B. Tauris.
Week 11. (April 13-15) Nationalism and its visual culture
Tuesday: Movie: Before the Rain (Pred dozhdot 1994) dir. Milcho Manchevski.
- Marciniak , Katarzyna; 2003. “Transnational anatomies of exile and abjection in Milcho Manchevski's "Before the Rain" (1994)” Cinema Journal, 43: 63-84.
Thursday: No class. Work on posters. (Ömür’s out of town)
Week 12. (April 20-22) Turkey: construction of multiple pasts at Çatalhöyük
April 20 Tuesday: Drafts of Posters due. Critique/review in class.
- Hodder, Ian; 1998. “The past as passion and play: Çatalhöyük as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts,” in Archaeology under fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. L. Meskell (ed.), Routledge: London and New York, 124-139.
- Hamilakis, Yannis; 1999. “La trahison des archéologues? Archaeological Practice as Intellectual Activity in Postmodernity.” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12: 60-79.
- Hodder, Ian; 1999. “A response to Yannis Hamilakis,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12:83-85.
- Bartu, Ayfer; 1999. “Archaeological Practice as Guerrilla Activity in Late Modernity: Commentary on Hamilakis,” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 12: 91-95.
Week 13. (April 27-29) Israel: Obsessions with the Biblical past and archaeology as political action
- Elon, Amos; 1997. “Politics and archaeology,” in The archaeology of Israel. N.A. Silberman and D. B. Small (eds.). Sheffield Academic Press, 34-47.
- Baram; Uzi; 2007. “Appropriating the past: heritage, tourism, and archaeology in Israel,” in Selective remembrances: archaeology in the construction, commemoration and sonsecration of national pasts. Philip L. Kohl, Mara Kozelsky, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda (eds.). The Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 299-325.
- Silberman, Neil A.; 1998. “Whose game is it anyway? The political and social transformations of American Biblical archaeology,” in Archaeology under fire: Nationalism, politics and heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. L. Meskell (ed.), Routledge: New York, 175-187.
- Kersel, Morag M.; Christina Luke and Christopher H. Roosevelt; 2008. “Valuing the past: Perceptions of archaeological practice in Lydia and the Levant” Journal of Social Archaeology 8(3): 298-319.
April 29: Final posters due
TAG Conference: April 30-May 2, 2010. Poster session at the Joukowsky Institute
Week 14. (May 4-6) Transnational Egypt(omania): Pyramids, tourism, terrorism and nightclubs.
- Wynn, L.L.; 2008. “Shape shifting lizard people, Israelite slaves, and other theories of pyramid building: Notes on labor, nationalism, and archaeology in Egypt” Journal of Social Archaeology 8: 272 - 295.
- Parker, Ian; “The Pharaoh” The New Yorker November 16, 2009, p. 52f.
- Wynn, L.L.; 2007. “Introduction,” in Pyramids and Nightclubs: A Travel Ethnography of Arab and Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis to Rumors of Sex Orgies, Urban Legends about a Marauding Prince, and Blonde Belly Dancers. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1-27.
- Meskell, Lynn; 2005. “Sites of violence: terrorism, tourism and heritage in the archaeological present,” in Embedding ethics. Lynn Meskell and Peter Pels (eds.). Oxford: Berg, 123-146.
Final papers due May 12, 2010 Wednesday 5 pm, hard copy in Ömür’s mailbox at the Institute.
