Archaeology in Situ
Author: Anna Stroulia
Publisher: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780739132357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the ways local communities perceive, experience, and interact with archaeological sites in Greece, as well as with the archaeologists and government officials who construct and study such places. In so doing, it reveals another side to sites that have been revered as both birthplace of Western civilization and basis of the modern Greek nation. The conceptual terrain of those who live near such sites is complex and furrowed with ambivalence, confusion, and resentment. For many local residents, these sites are gated enclaves, unexplained and off limits, except when workers are needed.