“Masters” and “Natives”: Digging the Others’ Past

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“Masters” and “Natives”

Digging the Others’ Past

Edited by: Svetlana Gorshenina , Philippe Bornet , Michel E. Fuchs and Claude Rapin

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Volume 8 | Welten Süd- und Zentralasiens / Worlds of South and Inner Asia / Mondes de l'Asie du Sud et de l'Asie Centrale

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The book focuses on the relational dynamic between “masters” and “natives” in the construction of scholarly narratives about the past, in the fields of archeology, history or the study of religions. Reconsidering the role of subaltern actors that recent postcolonial studies have tended to ignore, the present book emphasizes the complex relations between representatives of the imperial power and local actors, and analyzes how masters and natives (and their respective cultures) have shaped each other in the course of the interaction. Through various vectors of intercultural transfer and knowledge exchange, through the circulation of ideas, techniques and human beings, new visions of the past of extra-European regions emerged, as did collective memories resulting from various kinds of appropriations. In this framework, the most important question is how these dynamic processes determined collective memories of the past in plural (post-)colonial – in particular, Asian – worlds, participating to the construction of national/imperial/local identities and to the reinvention of traditions.

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Philippe Bornet and Michel Fuchs, University of Lausanne; Svetlana Gorshenina, Collège de France; Claude Rapin, CNRS-ENS.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Note on Transliteration Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Preface Continuity and Distance: Antiquarians before Archaeologists Alain Schnapp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Introduction The Spirit of Adventure: The Archaeologist-cum-Hero and His Aides in the Heart of Unknown Worlds Svetlana Gorshenina, Philippe Bornet, Michel E. Fuchs and Claude Rapin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	5
Archaeology in the Time of Empires: Unequal Negotiations and Scientific Competition
“Masters” Against “Natives”: Edward Daniel Clarke and the “Theft” of the Eleusinian “Goddess” Karl Reber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
Russian Archaeologists, Colonial Administrators, and the “Natives” of Turkestan: Revisiting the History of Archaeology in Central Asia Svetlana Gorshenina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
The “Maîtres” of Archaeology in Eastern Turkestan: Divide et Impera Mikhail Bukharin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
“Master” / “Native”: Are There Winners? A Micro-History of Reciprocal and Non-Linear Relations
Subverting the “Master”–“Native” Relationship: Dragomans and Their Clients in the Fin-de-Siècle Middle East Rachel Mairs and Maya Muratov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
In the Service of the Colonizer: Leon Barszczewski, Polish Officer in the Tsarist Army Barbara Kaim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
“The General and his Army”: Metropolitans and Locals on the Khorezmian Expedition Irina Arzhantseva and Heinrich Härke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Taming the Other’s Past: The Eurocentric Scientific Tools
From the Emic to the Etic and Back Again: Archaeology, Orientalism, and Religion from Colonial Sri Lanka to Switzerland Philippe Bornet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Legislation and the Study of the Past: The Archaeological Survey of India and Challenges of the Present Himanshu Prabha Ray Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Early Archaeology in a “Native State”: Khans, Officers, and Archaeologists in Swat (1895–1939), with a Digression on the 1950s Luca Maria Olivieri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
The Forging of Myths: Heroic Clichés and the (Re-)Distribution of Roles
Archaeologists in Soviet Literature Leonid Heller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Archaeology and the Archaeologist on Screen Mehdi Derfoufi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Reversal of Roles in Postcolonial and Neocolonial Contexts: From a Relation between “Masters” and “Subordinates” to “Partnership”?
From Supervision to Independence in Archaeology: The Comparison of the Iranian and the Afghan Strategy Agnès Borde Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
The Postcolonial Rewriting of the Past in North and South Korea Following Independence (1950s–1960s) Arnaud Nanta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Excavating in Iran and Central Asia: Cooperation or Competition? Bruno Genito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	323
Publishing an Archaeological Discovery astride the “North”–“South” Divide (On an Example from Central Asia) Claude Rapin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
Role Reversal: Hindu “Ethno-Expertise” of Western Archaeological Materials Thierry Luginbühl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	367

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October 8, 2019

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9783110599466

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9783110597066

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Front matter:

11

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383

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71

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110599466

eBook ISBN: 9783110599466

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Colonial History; Asia; Intercultural Transfer

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Researchers and Scholars in History, Archeology, Religion, and Social Science; Students

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