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Cultural identity and regional archaeological projects

Beyond ethical questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Michael Fotiadis
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To place ‘regional projects’ and ‘cultural identity’ next to each other in the title of a conference session is extraordinary, indeed baffling: questions of cultural identity have hardly ever been addressed in conjunction with a regional project. In fact, many of us who were attracted to regional research some time ago saw in it an opportunity to escape from the quest for identity which, in the form of ethnogenetic concerns, had dominated the practice of archaeology since 1900 and to explore instead issues of an entirely different nature: adaptation to the natural and social environment, economic rationality and its long-term effects on such adaptation, the formation of hierarchical polities, and the like.

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , May 1997 , pp. 102 - 113
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