The Archaeology of Mediterranean Placemaking: Butrint and the Global Heritage Industry Contributor(s): Hodges, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1350069590 ISBN-13: 9781350069596 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $47.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Ancient - General |
Dewey: 939.865 |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.57 lbs) 184 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Butrint has been one of the largest archaeological projects in the Mediterranean over the last two decades. Major excavations and a multi-volume series of accompanying scientific publications have made this a key site for our developing understanding of the Roman and Medieval Mediterranean. Through this set of interwoven reflections about the archaeology and cultural heritage history of his twenty-year odyssey in south-west Albania, Richard Hodges considers how the Butrint Foundation protected and enhanced Butrint's spirit of place for future generations. Hodges reviews Virgil's long influence on Butrint and how its topographic archaeology has now helped to invent a new narrative and identity. He then describes the struggle of placemaking in Albania during the early post-communist era, and finally asks, in the light of the Butrint Foundation's experience, who matters in the shaping of a place - international regulations, the nation, the archaeologist, the visitor, the local community or some combination of all of these stakeholders? With appropriate maps and photographs, this book aims to offer an unusual but important new direction for archaeology in the Mediterranean. It should be essential reading for archaeologists, classical historians, medievalists, cultural heritage specialists, tourism specialists as well as those interested in the Mediterranean's past and future. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hodges, Richard: - Richard Hodges, OBE, is Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia, UK, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury. |