ANTHROP 3PD3 Lecture 11: 3PD3 Nadia Abu El-Haj
8 Nov 2017
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Emphasizing notions of how we are all similar to each other in notions of difference. I. e. , canada, despite our nationalism, we are a nation that are bilingual, cultural, tolerant. Looks at this in relation to archaeology in israel and how the jewish dominant israeli government imagines a sense of identity; their notions are predicated upon ethnicity; to be israeli is to be. Jewish, as well as notions of territory; the idea is that this is our territory. haj is a social archaeologist; studying how archaeology is politicized. She is looking at how archaeology has been adopted and promoted by the state from about the late. Helps solve the debate of who was here first. She argues there"s a real focus on establishing chronologies. Trying to correlate historical or text based chronologies with archaeological examples. This particular house dates to 70 c. e. , and argues that this dates to the actual time where romans.
