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Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society 1st Edition

by Nadia Abu El-Haj (Author)
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Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies for the first time the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations.

Boldly uncovering an Israel in which science and politics are mutually constituted, this book shows the ongoing role that archaeology plays in defining the past, present, and future of Palestine and Israel.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0226001954
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    978-0226001951
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    1st
  4. Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
  5. Publication date
    February 1, 2002
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    0.9 x 6 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    363 pages
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  • Jessica Slater
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2021
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  • Matthias Goertz
    4.0 out of 5 stars Perfectly valid, if slightly dry
    Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2023
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    The methodology is well established--Foucault, social constructivism. The author masters it well, though does not advance it. The chosen case study is instructive, which is unsurprising. The investigation of the archaeology, and especially of the museum- and "history" tour performances, in Jerusalem, is fascinating and well-told, and there can be no doubt as to the accuracy of her findings. If anything, she could have been slightly less dry, tedious and academically detached in her choice of language, and slightly less respectful of the "professional" archaeologists systematically enrolled by Zionism in its blatant rewriting of history and appropriating memory.
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  • Joachim Martillo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Nadia Abu el Haj and Yael Zerubavel
    Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2007
    Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition by Yael Zerubavel discusses the construction of memory and the invention of traditions in Mandatory Palestine and in the State of Israel. The book describes some unusual Israeli or Zionist practices associated with Masada and Bar Kochba archeological excavations.

    Rather like Nadia Abu el Haj in Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, Zerubavel describes the use of archeology and other scholarship to construct Zionist national identity.

    Other scholars have investigated the political use of archeology in various contexts. Not only Max Weinreich and Eric Hobsbawm provide similar analysis in their published works, but Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State Formation Theories by Hyung Il Pai addresses precisely that same issues with regard to the development of Korean national consciousness.

    Even though Abu el Haj focuses more narrowly on professional archeologists whereas Zerubavel looks at Israeli society as a whole, both authors make similar points in their books, and Zerubavel provides support for some of the claims for which Nadia Abu el Haj has been most criticized.

    Zerubavel received the 1996 Salo Baron Prize of the American Academy for Jewish Research for her work while Nadia Abu el Haj is the target of an international campaign to drive her out of Columbia/Barnard. The difference in the responses evoked by the two authors merits a scholarly study in itself.
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  • Brian Kenneth Swain
    3.0 out of 5 stars At Least One Non-Ideological Reader Should Review This Book
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2009
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    Finally got through this after many months of stopping and starting. It's quite tough and pretty dense in parts, being essentially a doctoral dissertation converted into book form. It is also extremely challenging to rank this work from a purely literary or even societal perspective, since the topic is so fraught with politics. El Haj is essentially making the case that Israeli archaeologists have systematically used their science as a means not so much of advancing the field as of fabricating a foundation for the history and present right to exist of the Jewish state. Needless to say, many are not comfortable with this assertion or the arguments she makes to support it. In fact, if you look at all of the other ratings on Amazon, what you find is a pretty much equal number of 1's (pro-Israelis who can't stand anything negative being said about Israel or Judaism) and 5's (pro-Arabs who think that anything that undermines Israel is just swell). All this said, it is certainly a thought provoking work and one that raises numerous valid issues to think about, irrespective of your politics or views on Middle-East affairs.
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  • M. Dietler
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Conjuncture of Anthropology and Science Studies
    Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2006
    This is a subtle and brilliant analysis of the way that archaeology has been conscripted into the project of Israeli colonialism. It shows how archaeological sites and practices have helped to remake the modern landscape in ways that construct a highly politicized, essentialized, and exclusionary vision of identity rooted in place. It represents an exceptionally fine example of the conjuncture of Anthropology and Science Studies, and it is one of the very best treatments of the politics of archaeology known to me. It will, of course, be quite troubling to those who believe in the Zionist political project, as it exposes the artificiality of many of the claims that archaeology has been used to construct and naturalize (hence the inevitable negative reviews by political opponents). But the work is not at all polemical, and its thoughtful, measured analysis should be appreciated by most readers. It certainly demands to be read by anyone with a serious interest in the politics of the Middle East, colonialism and postcolonial studies, the history and sociology of archaeology, or science studies in general. It should be mandatory reading for university syllabi dealing with these issues.
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