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This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology,
colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of
Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which
archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated,
contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism from the 1930s
until today and what it shows about the power dynamics of heritage
and ecotourism. The volume-explores how the discourses of
colonialism and ecotourism affect tourists, archaeologists,
heritage managers, and the local community;-is written as a set of
overlapping creative essays, each giving an overlapping perspective
on Hintang;-is a multidisciplinary research project based on
ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews with
community members, biography, material culture studies, and text
analysis.
This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology,
colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of
Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which
archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated,
contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism from the 1930s
until today and what it shows about the power dynamics of heritage
and ecotourism. The volume-explores how the discourses of
colonialism and ecotourism affect tourists, archaeologists,
heritage managers, and the local community;-is written as a set of
overlapping creative essays, each giving an overlapping perspective
on Hintang;-is a multidisciplinary research project based on
ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews with
community members, biography, material culture studies, and text
analysis.
This volume represents the report of investigations at the site of
Lao Pako, including excavations carried out since 1993. The aim of
the investigations was to recover artefacts from the main area of
the site which would elucidate evidence on site function, dating
and identify the trade and contact networks with the surrounding
area. Evidence relating to pottery production, metal- and
textile-working and the use of stone tools is discussed in detail.
Interpretations of the material evidence and priorities for the
future are also explored.
Cultural history tends to elude positive definition. It deals in
some sense with culture, and with history, combined in a creative
and often critical analysis. But its strength and analytical
potential is to be found in its slipperiness, in its critical
attitude to authoritative categorisation, and its relentless
movement towards new angles, new spaces beyond the evident and the
canonical. This volume has sprung out of the Research School for
Studies in Cultural History at the Faculty of Humanities of
Stockholm University, a five-year interdisciplinary research
programme focusing on interplays between past and present. The
Research School has provided a productive space for border-crossing
academic enterprises. And as a result, the seventeen essays of this
volume display just as many innovative approaches to traditional
academic subjects such as celebrity, literary genre, prehistoric
remains, television, and historic monuments. All stem from
unexpected combinations and sliding perspectives, focusing on
obscure corners and gaps between the illuminated centres of
traditional academic knowledge. From such sliding perspectives
follows the realisation that all narratives, representations, and
claims of culture and history are in some sense political. The
seventeen essays in this volume demonstrate how a shifting
kaleidoscope of the academic subjects makes new knowledge possible,
and enables the formulation of new critical questions. Challenging,
disturbing, inspirational, these essays all make cultural history.
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