Unmasking Ideology in Imperial and Colonial Archaeology

Bonnie Effros is the chair of history at the University of Liverpool. She was previously a professor of history, the Rothman Chair, and the director of the Center for Humanities and Public Sphere at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Guolong Lai is an associate professor of Chinese art and archaeology at the University of Florida.

Table of Contents Ch. 1: Archaeology and Imperialism: From Nineteenth-Century New Imperialism to Twentieth-Century Decolonization by Margarita Diaz-Andreu Ch. 2: German Archaeology in Occupied Europe during World War II: A Case Of Colonial Archaeology? by Hubert Fehr Ch. 3: Problematizing the Encylopedic Museum: The Benin Bronzes and Ivories in Historical Context by Neil Brodie Ch. 4: Digging up China: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Regionalism in the Yinxu Excavation, 1928-1937 by Guolong Lai Ch. 5: "They have not changed in 2,500 years": Art, Archaeology and Modernity in Iran by Talinn Grigor Ch. 6: The Entanglement of Native Americans and Colonialist Archaeology in the Southwestern United States by Chip Colwell Ch. 7: The History of Archaeology through the Eyes of Egyptians by Wendy Doyon Ch. 8: Indigenous Voices at the Margins: Nuancing the History of French Colonial Archaeology in Ninteenth-Century Algeria, 1830-1870 by Bonnie Effros Ch. 9: Critiquing the Discovery Narrative of Lady Mungo by Ann McGrath Ch. 10: In the Shadow Zone of Imperial Politics: Archaeological Research in Buryatia from the Late Nineteenth Century to the 1940s by Ursula Brosseder Ch. 11: Imperial Archaeology or an Archaeology of Exoticism? Victor Segalen's Expeditions in Early Twentieth-Century China by Jian Xu Ch. 12: Four German Art Historians in Republican China by Lothar von Falkenhausen Ch. 13: French Archaeology and History in the Colonial Maghreb: Inheritance, Presence, and Absence by Matthew McCarty Ch. 14: The Colonial Origins of Myth and National Identity in Uganda by Peter R. Schmidt Ch. 15: Japanese Colonial Archaeology in Korea and Its Legacy by Yangjin Pak Ch. 16: The Cloth Colonization: Peruvian Tapestries in the Andes and in Foreign Museums by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi