“I Like to Keep my Archaeology Dead”. Alienation and Othering of the Past as an Ethical Problem

As archaeologists, we have to deal with the dead, and as David Clarke once said, we like to keep our archaeology dead. From an epistemological perspective, alienation from the dead seems almost inevitable; otherwise, we would only project today’s conditions onto the past. Therefore, the past must b...

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Main Authors: Stefan Schreiber, Sabine Neumann, Vera Egbers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Programmes de bioéthique, École de santé publique de l'Université de Montréal 2019-11-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Bioethics
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Online Access:https://cjb-rcb.ca/index.php/cjb-rcb/article/view/139