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Bureaucratic Archaeology : State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India.

By: Avikunthak, AshishMaterial type: TextTextSeries: South Asia in the Social Sciences SerPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021Copyright date: �2021Description: 1 online resource (364 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781009082006Subject(s): India-AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Electronic books. Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bureaucratic ArchaeologyDDC classification: 934 LOC classification: DS418 .A955 2021Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Bureaucratic Archaeology -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- 1. Anthropology of Archaeology -- Ethnography of Archaeology as Science -- Ethnography of Archaeology as Bureaucracy -- A Short History of the Postcolonial ASI -- Ethnographic Methodology -- Notes -- 2. The Making of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization -- Saraswati in the Aryan-Harappan debate -- Colonial Indology and the Birth of the Saraswati -- Archaeology and the Reconfiguration of the Saraswati -- Postcolonial Geology and the Birth of the Hydrological Saraswati -- The Harappan Archaeogenetics -- Hindutva Politics and the Making of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization -- The Saraswati Heritage Project (SHP) -- The Archaeological Sites of This Ethnography -- Notes -- 3. Bureaucratic Hierarchy in the ASI -- Director General Headquarters -- Excavation Branch -- Superintending Archaeologists -- Assistant Archaeologists -- Alumni Student Workers -- Laborers -- Notes -- 4. Spatial Formation of the Archaeological Field -- Bureaucracy in the Camp -- Architecture of the Camp -- Hierarchy in the Camp -- Acquisition of the Excavation Site -- Contested Politics of Discovery -- Notes -- 5. Epistemological Formation of the Archaeological Site -- Wheelerian Grid and the Disciplining Colonial ASI -- The Rationality of Large-Scale Horizontal Excavation -- Cartographic Ontology of the Wheelerian Grid -- Notes -- 6. Theory of Archaeological Excavation -- Ontology of the Trench -- Mortimer Wheeler and the Temporal Chronology of Indian Archaeology -- Stratigraphy as Visualizing an Objective Past -- Notes -- 7. Making of the Archaeological Artifact -- The Artifact in the Trench -- The Practice of Discovery -- Discovery and Chain of Credibility -- Pottery Yard and Ceramic Classification -- Notes.
8. Performance of Archaeological Representations -- Subject Preparation -- Photography and the Epistemic Marker -- Photography and the Ethnic Marker -- Notes -- 9 The Absent Excavation Reports -- Unpublished Excavation Report -- Theories of Corruption -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Unpublished References -- Published References -- Index.
Summary: An ethnography of archaeological practice in postcolonial India that reveals the bureaucratic culture in the making of knowledge about past.
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Cover -- Bureaucratic Archaeology -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations -- 1. Anthropology of Archaeology -- Ethnography of Archaeology as Science -- Ethnography of Archaeology as Bureaucracy -- A Short History of the Postcolonial ASI -- Ethnographic Methodology -- Notes -- 2. The Making of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization -- Saraswati in the Aryan-Harappan debate -- Colonial Indology and the Birth of the Saraswati -- Archaeology and the Reconfiguration of the Saraswati -- Postcolonial Geology and the Birth of the Hydrological Saraswati -- The Harappan Archaeogenetics -- Hindutva Politics and the Making of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization -- The Saraswati Heritage Project (SHP) -- The Archaeological Sites of This Ethnography -- Notes -- 3. Bureaucratic Hierarchy in the ASI -- Director General Headquarters -- Excavation Branch -- Superintending Archaeologists -- Assistant Archaeologists -- Alumni Student Workers -- Laborers -- Notes -- 4. Spatial Formation of the Archaeological Field -- Bureaucracy in the Camp -- Architecture of the Camp -- Hierarchy in the Camp -- Acquisition of the Excavation Site -- Contested Politics of Discovery -- Notes -- 5. Epistemological Formation of the Archaeological Site -- Wheelerian Grid and the Disciplining Colonial ASI -- The Rationality of Large-Scale Horizontal Excavation -- Cartographic Ontology of the Wheelerian Grid -- Notes -- 6. Theory of Archaeological Excavation -- Ontology of the Trench -- Mortimer Wheeler and the Temporal Chronology of Indian Archaeology -- Stratigraphy as Visualizing an Objective Past -- Notes -- 7. Making of the Archaeological Artifact -- The Artifact in the Trench -- The Practice of Discovery -- Discovery and Chain of Credibility -- Pottery Yard and Ceramic Classification -- Notes.

8. Performance of Archaeological Representations -- Subject Preparation -- Photography and the Epistemic Marker -- Photography and the Ethnic Marker -- Notes -- 9 The Absent Excavation Reports -- Unpublished Excavation Report -- Theories of Corruption -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Unpublished References -- Published References -- Index.

An ethnography of archaeological practice in postcolonial India that reveals the bureaucratic culture in the making of knowledge about past.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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