Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East

ISBN-13: 9780367662318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Ruth Young

Opis

Historical Archaeology and Heritage in the Middle East explores everyday, rural communities in Iran and Oman in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, through a combination of building analysis, excavation, artefact analysis and ethnographic interviews.

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on the Identification of Interviewees

1 Introduction

The aims of this book

Key concepts in this book: place, memory, belonging

Heritage

The case studies

  The Iran project: Landlord Villages of the Tehran Plain

  Landlord villages of Iran

  Post revolution villages

  The Oman project: Bat Oasis Heritage Project

  Oman villages of the interior

  Housing changes in Oman

Conclusion

2 Recent histories of Iran and Oman

An outline of recent Iranian History

An outline of recent Omani history

Nation building, heritage, and place

  Iran: nation building by the Pahlavis

  Oman: nation building by Sultan Qaboos

Conclusion

3 An archaeology of place and memory

Archaeology is a way of understanding how people make place

The village plans

Place and power

Giving meaning to place

Place and religion

Public places

Place and memory

Post abandonment

  Landlord villages

  Bat Oasis

Conclusion

4 Memory, place and belonging

Place, archaeology and memory

Place and belonging under attack

Mudbrick and memory in Oman

Mudbrick and memory in Iran

  Kazemabad and Hosseinabad Sanghar memories

  Gach Agach memories

Discussion and conclusion

5 Heritage in the Middle East

Heritage

UNESCO World Heritage in relation to the Middle East

Why is the Bat prehistoric archaeological landscape a WH site and not the Bat Oasis?

Heritage in the Middle East

National heritage in Oman

National heritage in Iran

Quotidian and fragmented heritage

Conclusion

6 Historical archaeology and heritage in the Middle East

Barriers to historical archaeologySo how should we go about setting up ‘good’ heritage and archaeology projects?

Community involvement

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Ruth Young is a Reader in Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. She is interested in the historical archaeology and heritage of the Middle East and South Asia and has directed and co-directed excavations and fieldwork in Iran, Lebanon, Oman, and Pakistan. Her recent publications include Post-Conflict Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (2017, Routledge), and The Archaeology of South Asia (2105).