Knowing Palmyra: Mandatory production of archaeological knowledge

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
J. Baird, Zena Kamash, R. Raja
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During the Syrian conflict, ongoing since 2011, Palmyra became notorious for the destruction and looting of its Roman-period remains, giving rise to many narratives of what Palmyra’s future should bring, often without attention to how we have come to know its past. This article explores that past through a key period—the French Mandate—when European archaeologists categorically reshaped the site, culminating in the relocation of the site’s population from mudbrick houses in and around the Temple of Bel to a new, military-built town north of the original. We examine the site immediately prior to that transformation through contemporary archaeological diaries from 1924 to 1928, written by Danish archaeologist Harald Ingholt. Through his diaries, it is possible to reconstruct the complexity of knowledge production at the site, which disrupts the authorized discourses of archaeological discovery with important consequences for how we understand the contribution of local inhabitants to scientific knowledge.
了解巴尔米拉:考古知识的强制性生产
在2011年持续的叙利亚冲突期间,帕尔米拉因破坏和掠夺罗马时期的遗迹而臭名昭著,引发了许多关于帕尔米拉未来的叙述,而我们往往没有注意到我们是如何了解它的过去的。这篇文章通过一个关键时期——法国托管时期——来探索这段历史,当时欧洲考古学家对遗址进行了彻底的改造,最终将遗址内的居民从贝尔神庙内及周围的泥砖房屋搬迁到一个新的、军事建造的城镇,该镇位于原建筑的北部。我们通过丹麦考古学家哈拉尔德·因霍尔特(Harald Ingholt)从1924年到1928年撰写的当代考古日记,对这个遗址进行了研究。通过他的日记,有可能重建现场知识生产的复杂性,这扰乱了考古发现的授权话语,对我们如何理解当地居民对科学知识的贡献产生了重要影响。
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8.30%
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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