EAA 2001 INVITATION of PAPERS
you are invited to take part in the session entitled "Archaeology,
Nationalism and Ethnicity" which we (Stephanie Koerner and Marek
Zvelebil) are organizing for the 7th Annual Meeting of the European
Association of Archaeologists, in Esslingen Germany, September
19-23, 2001
receiving your paper suggestions as will as suggestions about the
themes around which the session will be developed.
Please send all e-mail etc to Stephanie - who is collecting
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With best regards, SK and MZ.
Archaeology, Nationalism and Ethnicity" (organizers, S.Koerner
and M. Zvelebil) preliminary abstract of session:
Let us not begin at the beginning or even the archive....
But rather at the word “archive”---and with the archive of so
familiar a word. Archae, we recall, names at once a
commencement and the commandment. This name
apparently co-ordinates two principles in one: the principle
according to nature or history, there where things
commence---physical, historical, or ontological principle---
but also the principle according to the law, there where
men and gods command, there where authority, social
order are exercised. in this place from which order is given--
-nomological principle.... There, we said, and in this
place. How are we to think of there? And this taking
place or this having a place of the archae?..... We have
there two orders of order: sequential and jussive. From
this point on, a series of cleavages will incessantly divide
every atom of out lexicon (Derrida 1995 Archive Fever, pp.
1-2).
It is difficult to find a term that is more problematic, but also
occasionally more popular than ‘ethnicity’. Not surprising the term
has acquired an extraordinary multi-valency. Of no lesser
complexity and diversity are the roles given to notions of archae
(but also archaeology) in the history of changing relations
nationalism and ethnicity. In these lights, what might be the range
of forms taken by relationships between archaeology, nationalism
and ethnicity. The 2001 Annual Meeting of the European
Association of Archaeologists provides an excellent occasion for
considering critically and constructively some of the main issues
raised by the themes: archaeology, nationalism and ethnicity.
We invite paper proposals relating to these issues, as well as
suggestions about themes around which the discussion might be
most usefully structured.
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