Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece

Anna Stroulia, Susan Buck Sutton

Lexington Books, 2010 - Archaeology - 513 pages

This volume explores the ways local communities perceive, experience, and interact with archaeological sites in Greece, as well as with the archaeologists and government officials who construct and study such places. In so doing, it reveals another side to sites that have been revered as both birthplace of Western civilization and basis of the modern Greek nation. The conceptual terrain of those who live near such sites is complex and furrowed with ambivalence, confusion, and resentment. For many local residents, these sites are gated enclaves, unexplained and off limits, except when workers are needed.

About the author

Anna Stroulia teaches for the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Indiana. She is the author of Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave. Susan Buck Sutton is associate vice president of international affairs and professor of anthropology at Indiana University. She is editor of Contingent Countryside: Settlement, Economy and Land Use in the Southern Argolid Since 1700.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Archaeology in Situ: Sites, Archaeology, and Communities in Greece; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series; Greek studies : interdisciplinary approaches; Greek studies
• Editors: Anna Stroulia, Susan Buck Sutton
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Lexington Books, 2010
• ISBN: 0739132350, 9780739132357
• Length: 513 pages