Not grounded in facts.(Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society)(Book Review)

From: Middle East Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. By Nadia Abu el-Haj. University of Chicago Press, 2001. 352 pp. $52 ($20, paper).

The peoples of the Middle East have long waged battles to co-opt history. Since ancient times, communal polities, ranging from small tribal configurations to vast empires, and from closely knit ethnic groups to more inclusive modern nations, have turned to the past to legitimize the present. Abu el-Haj, an anthropologist at Bamard College of Columbia University, explores in this interesting study how ...

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