> Actually I believe that nationalism is a child of the capitalism: it arose
> after/simultaneously with the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Recall that Soviet achaeologists regarded any nation-oriented
Archaeology as being "bourgeois" Archaeology.
But I think you would be better off linking nationalism and nationalist
archaeologies to the emergence of ethnic states throughout Europe
in 19th c., which in many cases occurred in the context of capitalist
economies, and thus to the socio-historic context of capitalism rather
than the economic theory itself as the cause of all evils.
> In Greece, for example, I can remember from the near past many
> exhibitions and illustrated volumes with an "archaeological-nationalistic"
> aspect, that were funded from Greek banks and businessmen of big industries.
While some businessmen and bank directors have a view of the past that
differs considerably from that of people who have read more than
school text-books on marbles and Pericles, it is very simplistic to assert
that the combination of private funding and archaeology necessarily has
nationalistic overtones.
Anastasia Dakouri
Christ's College
Cambridge
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