Archaeology under fire : nationalism, politics and heritage in the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East / edited by Lynn Meskell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Archaeology, politics and the cultural heritage of Cyprus / A. Bernard Knapp and Sophia Antoniadou -- Past is ours: images of Greek Macedonia / Kostas Kotsakis -- Contests of heritage and the politics of preservation in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia / K.S. Brown -- Bulgarian archaeology: ideology, sociopolitics and the exotic / Douglass W. Bailey -- Ideology and archaeology in Turkey / Mehmet Ozdoğan -- Past as passion and play: Çatalhöyük as a site of conflict in the construction of multiple pasts / Ian Hodder -- Beirut's memorycide: hear no evil, see no evil / Albert Farid Henry Naccache -- Conjuring Mesopotamia: imaginative geography and a world past / Zainab Bahrani -- Whose game is it anyway? The political and social transformations of American Biblical Archaeology / Neil Asher Silberman -- Gulf Arab states and their archaeology / D.T. Potts -- Memorabilia: archaeological materiality and national identity in Egypt / Fekri A. Hassan -- Ancient Egypt in America: claiming the riches / Ann Macy Roth.