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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
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“Masters” and “Natives”
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© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Acknowledgements V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Note on Transliteration XI
  5. Preface 1
  6. Introduction 5
  7. Archaeology in the Time of Empires: Unequal Negotiations and Scientific Competition
  8. “Masters” Against “Natives”: Edward Daniel Clarke and the “Theft” of the Eleusinian “Goddess” 19
  9. Russian Archaeologists, Colonial Administrators, and the “Natives” of Turkestan: Revisiting the History of Archaeology in Central Asia 31
  10. The “Maîtres” of Archaeology in Eastern Turkestan: Divide et Impera 87
  11. “Master” / “Native”: Are There Winners? A Micro-History of Reciprocal and Non-Linear Relations
  12. Subverting the “Master”–“Native” Relationship: Dragomans and Their Clients in the Fin-de-Siècle Middle East 107
  13. In the Service of the Colonizer: Leon Barszczewski, Polish Officer in the Tsarist Army 121
  14. “The General and his Army”: Metropolitans and Locals on the Khorezmian Expedition 137
  15. Taming the Other’s Past: The Eurocentric Scientific Tools
  16. From the Emic to the Etic and Back Again: Archaeology, Orientalism, and Religion from Colonial Sri Lanka to Switzerland 177
  17. Legislation and the Study of the Past: The Archaeological Survey of India and Challenges of the Present 197
  18. Early Archaeology in a “Native State”: Khans, Officers, and Archaeologists in Swat (1895–1939), with a Digression on the 1950s 213
  19. The Forging of Myths: Heroic Clichés and the (Re-)Distribution of Roles
  20. Archaeologists in Soviet Literature 239
  21. Archaeology and the Archaeologist on Screen 255
  22. Reversal of Roles in Postcolonial and Neocolonial Contexts: From a Relation between “Masters” and “Subordinates” to “Partnership”?
  23. From Supervision to Independence in Archaeology: The Comparison of the Iranian and the Afghan Strategy 291
  24. The Postcolonial Rewriting of the Past in North and South Korea Following Independence (1950s–1960s) 307
  25. Excavating in Iran and Central Asia: Cooperation or Competition? 323
  26. Publishing an Archaeological Discovery astride the “North”–“South” Divide (On an Example from Central Asia) 343
  27. Role Reversal: Hindu “Ethno-Expertise” of Western Archaeological Materials 367
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