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As an intellectual figure in South Africa, J. M. Coetzee has consistently engaged with the politics of the past, particularly the contemporary ethical ramifications of the colonial past, alongside the more recent and bitter history of oppression under apartheid. As archaeologists, we aim to excavate these engagements through his novels and essays, particularly his long‐standing concerns with the Khoekhoe communities of the Cape. In South Africa today, the tensions between remembering and forgetting are palpable and, in the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), we suggest that not all forgetting can be cast as therapeutic. Throughout his complex relationships with the nation's history, Coetzee foregrounds the colonial past and reiterates the ethical responsibilities of remembering so that the patterns of the past are not repeated.

Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on insights from feminist theory, art history, phenomenology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, the book takes bodily materiality as a crucial starting point to the understanding and formation of self in any society, and sheds new light on Ancient Egyptian and Maya cultures. The book shows how a comparative proj

Abstract:UNESCO World Heritage regions are historically constructed categories that do not easily map onto global geographies, yet they still continue to have important political and ethical implications in the international arena. Since their inception, regional categories have been at the heart of debates over global representation and equity in the World Heritage Committee. We include the recent controversy over uneven regional representation in elections to the Committee and the measures adopted to remedy this for the future. Specifically, the "Europe and North America" regional group has historically been the most dominant region and, as we demonstrate, continues to be so despite measures such as the Global Strategy. In the last decade, however, the "Asia and the Pacific" regional group has exhibited a growing presence in many aspects of World Heritage. We go on to examine overall trends from annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee from its start in 1977 to 2014 in terms of site inscription on the World Heritage List, membership on the Committee and size of national delegations in order to look in greater detail at the rising profile of Asia. This leads to a discussion of the different forms and understandings of regionalism, whether for Europe or Asia, and how some Asian delegations see their increased role and visibility in World Heritage.

Your body, my property : the problem of colonial genetics in a postcolonial world / Jonathan Marks -- The promise and perils of an ethic of stewardship / Alison Wylie -- "Where there aren't no ten commandments" : redefining ethics during the darkness in El Dorado scandal / Peter Pels -- Anthropology's Malaysian interlocutors : toward a cosmopolitan ethics of anthropological practice / Joel S. Kahn -- Sites of violence : terrorism, tourism, and heritage in the archaeological present / Lynn Meskell -- Pain, politics, and the epistemological ethics of anthropological disciplinarity / Pradeep Jeganathan -- Situational ethics and engaged practice : the case of archaeology in Africa / Martin Hall -- A science of the gray : Malthus, Marx, and the ethics of studying crop biotechnology / Glenn Davis Stone -- The morality of exhibiting Indians / Craig Howe -- Documenting ethics / Don Brenneis -- Solid histories for fragile nations : archaeology as cultural patrimony / Rosemary A. Joyce

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Materiality: An Introduction -- Objects in the Mirror Appear Closer Than They Are -- A Materialist Approach to Materiality -- Some Properties of Art and Culture: Ontologies of the Image and Economies of Exchange -- Sticky Subjects and Sticky Objects: The Substance of African Christian Healing -- Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms -- The Materiality of Finance Theory -- Signs Are Not the Garb of Meaning: On the Social Analysis of Material Things -- Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things -- Beyond Mediation: Three New Material Registers and Their Consequences -- Things Happen: Or, From Which Moment Does That Object Come? -- Contributors -- Index

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them