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Chris Cumberpatch schrieb: > Given the central place of culture-historical archaeology and history in > myths of nationalism and consequent conflicts and the events currently being > enacted in the Balkans, isn't a discussion of the depiction of archaeology > in a soap opera more than a little obscene? Don't we have some > responsibility to address slightly wider issues? Perhaps I should have > stuck to academic archaeology - it must be nice to spend all day with your > head in the sand ... or somewhere else. > but concentrating on the here-and-now (kosovo) ignores somalia, bosnia, nagorno karabak, etc. - perhaps it is obscene, but why should it be any more obscene this time around, as opposed to back in the "good old days" (quotes to premeditate any accusations of doubleplusungood thinking: e-mail does not convey intended irony very well) when the SS funded excavations in german-occupied territories to justify invasion/occupation, or... [fill-in the blanks with your favourite historical example]? could look at it another way: just how effective are we and have we been, as a profession, if our work somehow fits into some "central place of culture-historical archaeology and history in myths of nationalism"? maybe we should be relegated to the reruns after all...? geoff carver http://home.t-online.de/home/gcarver/ [log in to unmask] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%