Neil Asher Silberman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 104364 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neil Asher Silberman |
| PRENOMES | Neil Asher |
| SOBRENOME | Silberman |
| ASSINATURA | SILBERMAN N A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 308 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
In Memoriam
Protecting and Presenting Armageddon
The vital behind-the-scenes work of conservation and site presentation at Tel Megiddo is essential to preserving the site for visitation and raising public awareness about its archaeological and historical significance. Protecting the site’s extensive archaeological remains from deterioration requires ongoing conservation efforts at every scale from small finds to large excavation areas. And as Megiddo evolves from a strictly archaeological site …
Some Reflections on Decolonizing Archaeology in a Fragmented World
What has been achieved—or can realistically be achieved—by calls for the decolonization of archaeology? In the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean, as elsewhere, discourse about the past is often closely entangled with concerns of the present, and the idea of decolonizing archaeological practice in this war–torn region has particular relevance to its intractable ethic and political cultural conflicts. By more deeply examining the ideologica…
Good-bye to all that
Economists, political scientists, and journalists around the world have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will have long-term effects on twenty-first-century global society. As a precipitating factor in the final collapse of the post-1945 world order, the pandemic has been seen as an epochal turning point in human history. This article will examine the long-term effects that the pandemic may have on the protection and promotion of cultural her…
The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice
The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social contexts, with even the basic definition of what constitutes cultural heritage being widened far beyond the traditional categories of architecture, artifacts, archives, and art. Heritage n…
The Suffocated Cultural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Protected Areas
Management of sub-Saharan protected areas is at its peak, with most countries having signed up to international conventions aimed at protecting the natural environment and collectively managing political threats that are likely to emanate from other states’ interest to harness cross-border environmental resources. These conservation efforts however are at a broader perspective that does not cater for the nuances at varying scales of environmental…
The Special Responsibility of Public Spaces to Dismantle White Supremacist Historical Narratives
Public historical spaces hold a powerful role in the teaching of a regional and national heritage curriculum. Those public sites, markers, museums, and monuments provide the narrative from which citizens conceptualize the past and they comprise a curriculum of American history. However, the calculated and intentional omission of the histories and identities of marginalized and oppressed people creates an unequal, ahistorical void that is filled b…
Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene
This chapter explores the contemporary significance of agricultural heritage, a concept in which the largely cultural and societal concerns for heritage preservation are shuffled into those related to nature conservation and the development of agriculture. Both heritage preservation and nature conservation cast mutually constitutive and relatively fixed ideas of past nature and culture into present and future. Agriculture, too, arrives heavily bu…
The Social Sciences
The conservation of cultural heritage has not kept up with social and environmental changes such as climate change, widening economic inequality, cultural diversity, and mass migration. This chapter evaluates three disciplines that illuminate a central conservation problem—the nature and protection of place—at different scales and with different success. Environmental psychology explains emotional attachment to places: it shows that people care a…
What Could Be More Reasonable?” Collaboration in Colonial Contexts
Collaboration is considered a panacea in North American archaeology today—a cure-all that is claimed to have radically transformed the discipline by bringing about equality and decolonization. Such assertions are problematic on many fronts, especially because collaborative archaeology has undergone little critical assessment. Based on our analysis of how the practice is defined, how social power is construed and measured, and how the goal of deco…
David Lowenthal (1923−2018)
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Magical Materialism
In an era of globe-girdling resource flows, angry neo-nationalist movements, and increasing inequality between the powerful and the powerless, it's hardly a wonder that demands for the repatriation of cultural property by former colonial subjects from their former colonial overlords (and cultural institutions) have become a hotly debated ethical concern (Nilsson Stutz 2013).1 Greece's unanswered call for the return of the Parthenon (“Elgin”) Marb…
Changing Visions of Heritage Value
The author of this paper questions the role of the experts in heritage policies and practices. Is the voice of the heritage expert now guided by the vox populi ? The current evidence for these trends, long considered anathema to heritage purists, suggests that an epoch-making change in heritage practice is now underway. The announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding between the World Bank and UNESCO to provide “very positive input for the impr…
Is Every Sherd Sacred? Moving Beyond the Cult of Object-Centered Authenticity
In her article, Kersel has effectively highlighted the undeniable symptoms of a malfunction in contemporary archaeological praxis. She rightly points out that the goal of archaeology is not merely to dig (although that has long been seen as the most glamorous part of the process [see Gero 1985]), but to create new knowledge about the human past and responsibly curate the fruits of archaeological labor as a precious, irreplaceable resource for soc…
Help Wanted
I've always felt uneasy when I'm required to fill out the line “Present Occupation” on tax returns, survey questionnaires, and airport arrival forms. I really can't put archaeologist, since I never completed graduate school and haven't actually participated in an excavation for almost 20 years. For a long time I put down “writer” or “author” since I have published a fair number of books and articles, but, sadly no novels or short stories. My writ…
Peer Comment
Peer comment on: Crime, Controversy and the Comments Section: Discussing archaeological looting, trafficking, and the illicit antiquities trade online by Meg Lambert and Donna Yates
Managing Cultural Heritage
For anyone who has become comfortably accustomed to the self-congratulatory pronouncements and universal declarations regularly issued by the global fraternity of heritage bureaucrats and consultan
From Cultural Property to Cultural Data
The global digital environment and the continuous expansion of digital information about cultural property necessitate a reevaluation of John Henry Merryman's tripartite typology of cultural property ideals. Merryman put forth those ideals, namely 1.) ensuring the physical preservation of cultural property, 2.) protecting its even-handed interpretation, and 3.) offering public access to cultural property, as the main bases for the settlement of i…
The Tyranny of Narrative
Narrative is the heart of heritage interpretation, and modern Middle Eastern narratives of national histories tell distinct and conflicting tales. This paper highlights some major genres of archaeological and historical storytelling and analyzes the symbolic messages they convey. A closer look at the juxtaposition of competing story forms reveals a complex intertwining, in which one nation or ethnic group's “period of desolation” is simultaneous …
Heritage interpretation and human rights
This article highlights the central role of public interpretation in helping to integrate human rights concerns in the evaluation and management of World Heritage sites. Beginning with a brief survey of the relationship of cultural heritage to human rights in the United Nations (UN) system, it will then analyse the evolving concepts of culture in UN and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization policy. The paper will ident…
Donald Whitcomb Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam
Postcolonial, Neo-imperial, or a Little Bit of Both? Reflections on Museums in Lebanon
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
Virtual Viewpoints
Still Not Ready for Primetime
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and academic prehistory in the former Soviet Union, to lesser-known instances of ideological archaeology in other European countries, in China, Japan, Korea and the Near East. The introductory and conclud…
Icomos Charter for the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites
Significant documents of record recently produced and dealing with cultural property, heritage and related issues will be printed annually in the final issue (No. 4) of each numbered volume. Documents considered for publication may be national, regional, or international instruments and codes. Inquiries or suggestions regarding documentary materials may be addressed to the Chronicles Editor, Kurt Siehr, at ⟨[email protected]⟩ or the Editor, Alexan…
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
The pace and agenda of archaeology in Jerusalem has always been influenced by unspoken ideological and political factors. This article attempts to trace the ideological and political contexts in which archaeological exploration and interpretation has been carried out during the last 200 years. Beginning with a brief description of the Solomonic obsessions of the late antique and medieval rulers of Jerusalem, the article describes how, over the ce…
Heritage interpretation and human rights
This article highlights the central role of public interpretation in helping to integrate human rights concerns in the evaluation and management of World Heritage sites. Beginning with a brief survey of the relationship of cultural heritage to human rights in the United Nations (UN) system, it will then analyse the evolving concepts of culture in UN and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization policy. The paper will ident…
What Could Be More Reasonable?” Collaboration in Colonial Contexts
Collaboration is considered a panacea in North American archaeology today—a cure-all that is claimed to have radically transformed the discipline by bringing about equality and decolonization. Such assertions are problematic on many fronts, especially because collaborative archaeology has undergone little critical assessment. Based on our analysis of how the practice is defined, how social power is construed and measured, and how the goal of deco…
Is Every Sherd Sacred? Moving Beyond the Cult of Object-Centered Authenticity
In her article, Kersel has effectively highlighted the undeniable symptoms of a malfunction in contemporary archaeological praxis. She rightly points out that the goal of archaeology is not merely to dig (although that has long been seen as the most glamorous part of the process [see Gero 1985]), but to create new knowledge about the human past and responsibly curate the fruits of archaeological labor as a precious, irreplaceable resource for soc…
Good-bye to all that
Economists, political scientists, and journalists around the world have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will have long-term effects on twenty-first-century global society. As a precipitating factor in the final collapse of the post-1945 world order, the pandemic has been seen as an epochal turning point in human history. This article will examine the long-term effects that the pandemic may have on the protection and promotion of cultural her…
From Cultural Property to Cultural Data
The global digital environment and the continuous expansion of digital information about cultural property necessitate a reevaluation of John Henry Merryman's tripartite typology of cultural property ideals. Merryman put forth those ideals, namely 1.) ensuring the physical preservation of cultural property, 2.) protecting its even-handed interpretation, and 3.) offering public access to cultural property, as the main bases for the settlement of i…
The Tyranny of Narrative
Narrative is the heart of heritage interpretation, and modern Middle Eastern narratives of national histories tell distinct and conflicting tales. This paper highlights some major genres of archaeological and historical storytelling and analyzes the symbolic messages they convey. A closer look at the juxtaposition of competing story forms reveals a complex intertwining, in which one nation or ethnic group's “period of desolation” is simultaneous …
Some Reflections on Decolonizing Archaeology in a Fragmented World
What has been achieved—or can realistically be achieved—by calls for the decolonization of archaeology? In the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean, as elsewhere, discourse about the past is often closely entangled with concerns of the present, and the idea of decolonizing archaeological practice in this war–torn region has particular relevance to its intractable ethic and political cultural conflicts. By more deeply examining the ideologica…
Managing Cultural Heritage
For anyone who has become comfortably accustomed to the self-congratulatory pronouncements and universal declarations regularly issued by the global fraternity of heritage bureaucrats and consultan
Postcolonial, Neo-imperial, or a Little Bit of Both? Reflections on Museums in Lebanon
From Sacralising to Sacrilege? Possible Alternative Relationships of Religion, Nationalism, and Archaeology
In this elegant and wide-ranging essay, Hamilakis and Yalouri have offered us a sophisticated analysis of the utilisation of the ancient past in modern Greece. They have traced the powerful political connection between images of the past and contemporary political structures. They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task. Yet I want to offer a few conceptual clarifications and highlight some possib…
Toward a Critical Archaeology [and Comments and Reply]
Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology
Archaeology has often been put to political use, particularly by nationalists. The case studies in this timely collection range from the propaganda purposes served by archaeology in the Nazi state, through the complex interplay of official dogma and academic prehistory in the former Soviet Union, to lesser-known instances of ideological archaeology in other European countries, in China, Japan, Korea and the Near East. The introductory and conclud…
The archaeology of Israel
This volume represents an overview of the current state of archaeology in Israel. With contributions from leading scholars of archaeology in ancient Israel, the essays focus on current problems and cutting-edge issues, ranging from reviews of ongoing excavations to new analytical approaches. Of interest not only to archaeologists, but social historians as well, the topics include archaeology and social history, archaeology and ethnicity, and issu…
The Masada Myth
Playing with Matches
From Masada to the Little Bighorn
This paper describes the changing commemoration, political meaning and archaeological presentation of Masada and the Little Bighorn National Battlefield in an attempt to understand the role that each has played in the crystallization of national consciousness. In examining official efforts to preserve the site of ‘Custer's Last Stand’ – from its establishment as a US military cemetery in the late nineteenth century through recent archaeological e…
From Sacralising to Sacrilege? Possible Alternative Relationships of Religion, Nationalism, and Archaeology
In this elegant and wide-ranging essay, Hamilakis and Yalouri have offered us a sophisticated analysis of the utilisation of the ancient past in modern Greece. They have traced the powerful political connection between images of the past and contemporary political structures. They have described how different modalities of veneration have been conscripted for this task. Yet I want to offer a few conceptual clarifications and highlight some possib…
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
The pace and agenda of archaeology in Jerusalem has always been influenced by unspoken ideological and political factors. This article attempts to trace the ideological and political contexts in which archaeological exploration and interpretation has been carried out during the last 200 years. Beginning with a brief description of the Solomonic obsessions of the late antique and medieval rulers of Jerusalem, the article describes how, over the ce…
Sultans, Merchants, and Minorities
"The Bible Unearthed"
Two Archaeologies
Virtual Viewpoints
Still Not Ready for Primetime
Icomos Charter for the Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites
Significant documents of record recently produced and dealing with cultural property, heritage and related issues will be printed annually in the final issue (No. 4) of each numbered volume. Documents considered for publication may be national, regional, or international instruments and codes. Inquiries or suggestions regarding documentary materials may be addressed to the Chronicles Editor, Kurt Siehr, at ⟨[email protected]⟩ or the Editor, Alexan…
Ename International Colloquium
The Fourth Annual Ename International Colloquium, entitled "Between Objects and Ideas: Rethinking the Role of Intangible Heritage," was held in Ghent, Belgium, March 26-28, 2008. Focusing on the intellectual and practical relationship between tangible and intangible heritage and its implications for the shaping of international heritage policy, it featured 40 speakers representing universities, museums, universities, and heritage organizations in…
The Nation and Its Ruins
Donald Whitcomb Changing Social Identity with the Spread of Islam
Postcolonial, Neo-imperial, or a Little Bit of Both? Reflections on Museums in Lebanon
The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis
Heritage interpretation and human rights
This article highlights the central role of public interpretation in helping to integrate human rights concerns in the evaluation and management of World Heritage sites. Beginning with a brief survey of the relationship of cultural heritage to human rights in the United Nations (UN) system, it will then analyse the evolving concepts of culture in UN and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization policy. The paper will ident…
The Tyranny of Narrative
Narrative is the heart of heritage interpretation, and modern Middle Eastern narratives of national histories tell distinct and conflicting tales. This paper highlights some major genres of archaeological and historical storytelling and analyzes the symbolic messages they convey. A closer look at the juxtaposition of competing story forms reveals a complex intertwining, in which one nation or ethnic group's “period of desolation” is simultaneous …
From Cultural Property to Cultural Data
The global digital environment and the continuous expansion of digital information about cultural property necessitate a reevaluation of John Henry Merryman's tripartite typology of cultural property ideals. Merryman put forth those ideals, namely 1.) ensuring the physical preservation of cultural property, 2.) protecting its even-handed interpretation, and 3.) offering public access to cultural property, as the main bases for the settlement of i…
Is Every Sherd Sacred? Moving Beyond the Cult of Object-Centered Authenticity
In her article, Kersel has effectively highlighted the undeniable symptoms of a malfunction in contemporary archaeological praxis. She rightly points out that the goal of archaeology is not merely to dig (although that has long been seen as the most glamorous part of the process [see Gero 1985]), but to create new knowledge about the human past and responsibly curate the fruits of archaeological labor as a precious, irreplaceable resource for soc…
Help Wanted
I've always felt uneasy when I'm required to fill out the line “Present Occupation” on tax returns, survey questionnaires, and airport arrival forms. I really can't put archaeologist, since I never completed graduate school and haven't actually participated in an excavation for almost 20 years. For a long time I put down “writer” or “author” since I have published a fair number of books and articles, but, sadly no novels or short stories. My writ…
Peer Comment
Peer comment on: Crime, Controversy and the Comments Section: Discussing archaeological looting, trafficking, and the illicit antiquities trade online by Meg Lambert and Donna Yates
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